Hi there, I think we can commit to keep builds for
- Solaris x86 - Solaris SPARC - Mac PPC (And hopefully soon HP-UX, but not yet). But, we'd need some help starting up since I expect some problems building in Solaris. pablo www.plasticscm.com Andrew Jorgensen escribió: > The Mono Team is looking for volunteers to maintain packages for several > platforms. We receive many bug reports and request for help which ultimately > turn out to be incompatibilities between the packages we build and platforms > we do not test them on. The Generic Linux installer has been especially > problematic in this regard. > > Historically it was important for us to provide packages for distributions > that did not carry Mono. With all major distributions already including some > version of Mono it's time to focus on ensuring that they include the best > version and that it's packaged in the best way. > > For these reasons we have decided that the Mono team will only release > binaries for platforms we test. This includes the latest openSUSE (11.0), > the latest SuSE Linux Enterprise (SLE 10), Windows, and MacOSX. The Generic > Linux installer has already been dropped. This new policy will take effect > immediately and will impact the 2.0 release. > > This does not mean that we don't want Mono to run well on other > distributions. On the contrary we want to give our users and developers the > best experience possible. The best way to do this is to have better > cooperation with members of the major distribution projects. > > Ideally we'd like to have each distribution provide packages for their own > releases. For instance we would love to have an Ubuntu PPA with the latest > mono. I don't know if Fedora has something similar but we can use the > openSUSE Build Service to build packages for RedHat derivatives if they > don't. Our hope is that this will lead to better mono support on all the > major distributions. > > We are also looking for a volunteer who is passionate about Mono on Solaris > to maintain packages on Blastwave. > > If you are a packager for one of these projects and / or have the skills to > help in this way please contact me. If possible we would like to have > packages for all these platforms available when 2.0 is released in late > September (more likely early October). > > Andrew Jorgensen > Mono / Moonlight Package Maintainer > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-devel-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-devel-list > > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
