[MonoDevelop] Which version of Mono Develop?

[Michael Hutchinson]

If you look at most Linux packages out there you'll find that they're
maintained by the distros. It's the exception, not the norm, for
developers to package their own apps, especially for distros they
don't use.

Given that we have some finite amount of time to spend on Linux
support, would you really prefer us to spend time packaging instead of
fixing Linux specific bugs?

On 20 March 2013 16:41, Daniel Hughes <trampster at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi this is total crap.
>
> I am the developer of Wide Margin and open source c# application, In
> my source tree is the debian packaging soruce, I maintain this as I
> develop Wide Margin and then I submit it to debian as soon as I make a
> new release. It's not a lot of work and proves that it can be done.
>
> It's not exactly rocket science, The real reason is that the mono
> develop developers don't want to do the work to support packages for
> multiple distros. Because on the whole they are paid by a company who
> produces commercial product for windows and mac and so have no
> incentive to support linux, Even when they were employed by Novell
> they only produced packages for opensuse because that was Novell's
> linux.
>
> On Debian the awsome debian-cli team has stepped in and filled the gap
> and packages mono develop for debian and it's derivatives. The latest
> version packaged for Debian is 3.0.3 and is in Debian unstable, you
> can see the info here http://packages.debian.org/sid/monodevelop
>
> If you want to help out the debian-cli team or ask them questions you
> can contact them on there IRC channel on OFTC IRC in the #debian-cli
> channel
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 1:27 AM, andy at brdstudio.net <andy at brdstudio.net> wrote:
>> The fine people who put together Monodevelop cannot force any distribution
>> to carry a new build it is up to the distro to build it on their platform
>> and put it in their repository. There are only a few exceptions to this
>> rule, Suse's build service comes to mind. There is always the option to
>> build Monodevelop from source but they can't force any distribution to have
>> the dependencies either. Linux distro are very protective of their product
>> for reasons that are easy to understand but it does make for some issues.
>>
>> I would suggest a note be put on Monodevelop's download page for Linux users
>> to let user know how package flow works in Linux so we can avoid
>> misunderstandings in the future.
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: "Andres G. Aragoneses" <knocte at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2013 8:47 PM
>> To: monodevelop-list at lists.ximian.com
>> Subject: Re: [MonoDevelop] Which version of Mono Develop?
>>
>>
>> Ask in the forums of your distro?
>>
>>
>> On 19/03/13 21:00, Geoffrey Carlton wrote:
>>> Why hasn't there been any update of Linux distros?
>>>
>>> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:56 PM, Kevin Evans <evans.kevinh at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:evans.kevinh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks everyone. I ended up downloading the 3.1 (or something)
>>> source and compiling it.
>>>
>>> I couldn't get the 4.x ones to compile because they needed a newer
>>> release of Mono, and I didn't feel like compiling Mono.
>>>
>>> On Mar 19, 2013 12:21 PM, "kevinevans" <evans.kevinh at gmail.com
>>> <mailto:evans.kevinh at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> I feel really dumb, but what version of MonoDevelop is actually
>>> stable?
>>>
>>> When I go to http://monodevelop.com/Download, it says that the
>>> latest stable
>>> release is 4.0, but the link just goes to
>>> http://monodevelop.com/ which says
>>> that the stable version is 3.0. When I checked the *buntu repos,
>>> the latest
>>> version is 2.8.6.3. Is the best option right now just to compile
>>> from the
>>> git repo?
>>>
>>>
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