This issue comes up from time to time on this list. I tend to agree with you, one must conclude this is done primarily to drive people towards Novell. Which is fair of course, as Novell funds a lot of the development. However, business objectives aside, there's no doubt that Mono itself would gain greater penetration if it was also a first class citizen on *buntu. But c'est la vie.
/Casper James Mansion wrote: > B.R. wrote: > >> It's not really up to Novell here, it's up to the Debian/Ubuntu >> maintainers to decide when new versions get supported. Part of the >> reason for this is that Debian, and by extension Ubuntu, have very >> specific policies on how things should be packaged (the Debian Free >> Software Guidelines are very strict, and the Mono project does violate >> them in a few places), and Novell simply haven't the resources to >> invest in hiring someone specifically to do Debian (and by extension >> Ubuntu) packaging, so it's left up to the maintainers who do a pretty >> good job with the time and resources they have. The reason binaries >> are shipped for Windows with every release is because there's no >> package specification to follow, so the binary packages are easy to >> build (build the libs, put them in the right places, package them up >> in an installer and you're good to go). >> > I think that's a bit lame - it makes a big assumption about the mono > team shipping a package for a start. Binary compatibility for apps (if > not drivers) is at least passable with current Linux systems. Why > should it be hard to ship a universal binary when Adobe and Sun (in > particular) have managed it for a long time? > > I can see that Novell need SLES to be the best platform for Mono for > commercial, but I think it needs to be ubiquitous first and then given > value add on the Novell product - and that means better support for > other Linuxen, and OpenSolaris, and FreeBSD. > > James > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
