[MonoDevelop] Which version of Mono Develop?

[Daniel Hughes]

Look, I'm quite happy for you to say, look we don't have the time or
incentive to create packages linux packages. That fair enough.

I just object to people saying that it can't be done, It can be done,
I have done it and other people have.

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:46 AM, Michael Hutchinson
<m.j.hutchinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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