[MonoDevelop] preferred OS for monodevelop
IBBoard
ibboard at gmail.com
Tue Mar 12 20:18:37 UTC 2013
It depends what you're updating. To update MonoDevelop on any distro
using a repository, find the repository with a newer version (if the
core repositories are too old), add it to your list (according to the
methods of your distro) and install it via your package manager
(according to the methods of your distro). The same is true for Mono.
Failing that, http://monodevelop.com/Download should have download links
for the major distributions (except that they're all either broken or
still on 3.x) and has instructions for building from source. As
MonoDevelop is a Mono app and both openSUSE and Fedora are sensible
RPM-based distros then you *might* be able to use openSUSE RPMs once
they're available. Ditto for Mono at
http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html ^.
After that then you're on to building from source. The exact commands
vary by system, but basically involve you checking out a copy of the
source code, running "./configure" and working through the process of
installing the requirements (mainly "-devel" packages for stuff you have
the main library installed for).
The final option is to ask your local friendly distro-specific packager
to support the new hotness instead of the old and busted (well, the old
at least).
^ What? Mono is being built for openSUSE 11.4 on the main Mono site?
That's not even a supported distro any more! It hit EOL a while back.
On Tue, 2013-03-12 at 15:04 -0500, Geoffrey Carlton wrote:
> What command would I use to update it on Fedora 18?
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:54 PM, IBBoard <ibboard at gmail.com> wrote:
> To be fair, I think the "build from scratch" of MonoDevelop is
> comparatively simple for the size of the app. I've built both
> MD and
> Banshee on my openSUSE box while making changes to them and
> MonoDevelop
> has far fewer dependencies and was much easier to get going!
> After that,
> it is basically just "git pull && ./configure && make && sudo
> make
> install" each time you want to update.
>
> openSUSE also has good Mono support in the openSUSE Build
> Service (as
> someone else mentioned). They've not caught up with
> MonoDevelop quite
> yet (although the MonoDevelop.com front page does still list
> 3.0 as the
> latest!), but the Mono:Factory repository normally has an
> up-to-date
> version of Mono and the latest pre-4.0 of MonoDevelop.
>
>
>
> On Mon, 2013-03-11 at 21:58 +0100, Mike Krüger wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> >
> > Depends - in many ways Linux is our best and some ways it's
> our worst
> > platform.
> > Let's begin what's not so good:
> >
> >
> > - Installation is difficult (you need to set up a built
> environment) -
> > forget the versions from the official sources, they're
> outdated
> > - The Linux eco system is bigger (at least compared to os x)
> and some
> > bugs may occur on untested environments/library
> combinations.
> > - We're focusing ATM more on OS X and Windows platforms -
> therefore
> > we're beginning to erode on Linux - slowly. For example we
> don't
> > support gtk3 yet or Qt development. (But frankly most of
> this stuff
> > should be created by the .NET community on Linux, which
> is ... too
> > small unfortunately - I think I know all of them from
> IRC :))
> >
> >
> > Now to the things that are really good/better on Linux:
> >
> >
> > + We're a gtk program and despite our and Lanedo's efforts
> to improve
> > gtk on other platforms it runs best on Linux. The Linux UI
> is the
> > fastest and most stable out of all platforms.
> > + You've less keyboard input problems. The Linux version is
> the only
> > one where you can type with any layout and language inside
> > MonoDevelop. (Depending on what you use it's a big factor)
> > + Because you need to built the mono stack from source
> you've the
> > latest versions available and if you report bugs you're
> getting fixes
> > much more earlier than you would by using one of our
> installers
> > (therefore the installation pain is also a gain)
> > + MonoDevelop supports theming on Linux - I suspect that
> it'll break
> > with some dark themes - but generally you're more flexible
> on that
> > than on the other platforms
> > + Highest coolness factor 'My IDE isn't even in the
> repositories' - I
> > bet you're the only one in your street who can say that :).
> >
> >
> > ... in fact it's more or less equal on all platforms.
> >
> >
> > Regards
> > Mike
> >
> >
> > What is the preferred OS to use? Perhaps I’m going
> in the
> > wrong direction trying to run this on Linux. Is
> monodevelop
> > on windows stable?
> >
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Damian
> >
> >
> >
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