Pieter Baele wrote: >Op ma, 09-05-2005 te 09:44 +0300, schreef Kirill: > > > >>Yes, but on the Downloads page it doesn't say that the prebuilt packages >>are for 1.1.7. In fact, you get the feeling that they must be for 1.0.6, >>because that's the stable version! So you don't even bother looking >>there. Instead you straightly follow the link to the 1.1.7 Release >>Notes, which is on top of the Downloads page, to only find there a >>source tarball and no indication of prebuilt 1.1.7 packages availability. >> >> >> >1.1.6 is good enough for most apps.... >Why must everything in our society be so 'instant'? Lets give them some >time to prepare packages for al these different distributions.... > >You said it took 12 hours to install mono? I am a patient person, but 12 >hours!!! > > Yes, 12 hours for Mono + MonoDevelop. And I'm not a linux newbie. My point is that it's a direct result of misleading documentation and poor release organization of Mono and MonoDevelop and their subprojects.
>"It would have taken me as little as 2 to 3 hours..." > > That was an irony. >ergghh: that's also very long. An install of mono is maybe 10 minutes >work (ok that's maybe because gentoo has Peter Johanson who's a very >good maintainer for this) but It should not take longer then 1 hour on >other distributions. > >A typical monodevelop build from svn is max. 5 minutes. The first time I >spent nearly an hour to find out everything about the svn repo and >things like .autogen.sh + options (boo, mono-debugger, java) > > > >>Yes, but not with svn+ssh scheme. In other words, this won't work >>without password (taken directly from the readme): >> svn co svn+ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/source/trunk/mono >> >> > >I do really suggest a tutorial about searching the web. (some persons >would say "STFW" but I remain patient...) > >1 www.google.com >2 "mono anonymous svn" >3 http://svn.myrealbox.com/ >or http://mono-project.com/AnonSVN ('official'?) > >Is this difficult???? > > No, it's easy for someone, who knows that he should probably replace "svn+ssh://" with "svn://". And I do know that. That's why I said that I don't want to be nitpicky. But still, the readme is incorrect and "svn+ssh://" scheme doesn't work for anonymous access. I don't know, how to explain it in simpler words. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
