[MonoDevelop] MonoDevelop Distributions (was GTK# references for MD 2.8.1 on ubuntu 11.10)

[Doug Blank]

On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Andres G. Aragoneses <knocte at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't want to dis-encourage anyone or make optimism vanish, but I have
> the impression that you guys might realize, as time passes, that you're
> kind of reinventing the wheel.

I don't think we're really talking about inventing anything, but
assembling all of the component pieces in one place. Maybe it will
just be links and wiki pages.

> If you want to help your distro getting early updates of Mono packages
> go and get involved with the community that is already doing it. Hang
> out on IRC or mailing lists (of the distro, not here) and particularly
> talk to people that were in charge for years (like directhex --Jo
> Shields-- or meebey --Mirco Bauer--) to help them! I'm sure they will be
> delighted to know that new blood wants to join the party.

I think many people would like to see something different from what
there was in the past. For years, if you went to go-mono the "other"
Linux selection reminded you that Debian/Ubuntu had Mono 2.6. And that
was it. No options for other versions, and nothing available for other
distros in terms of packaging.

> And when I said "particularly", I meant: in particular in the case of
> Debian/Ubuntu.

Yes, perhaps Debian and Ubuntu are in better shape, now that they have
2.10.5. But how long will it stay at that version?

-Doug

> Cheers
>
> On 11/01/2011 09:20 PM, Dale E. Moore wrote:
>> I don't know if my time or skills will help any more than whining and/or
>> praising from a distance; but, just hearing y'all talk about this makes
>> me optimistic about the future.
>>
>> So let me be one of the first to say THANK YOU,
>> Dale
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:33 PM, mwjackson <email at mwjackson.net
>> <mailto:email at mwjackson.net>> wrote:
>>
>>     I would also be interested in helping maintain this
>>
>
>
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