Can you include the old and ancient releases of mono too?
Case for keeping old releases:
Just last night I could not figure out to get jay to work for me in a
mono-2.10.2 release. I was trying to build your csharp and Mono-CSharp without
using mono's build system. So, I found an ancient release of mcs 0.12 tarball
and used it to figure out how to use jay correctly. The older releases of
mono/mcs tarballs were simple compared to the complex build rules that we have
now. Unzips faster too.
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From: Miguel de Icaza <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; [email protected];
[email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, July 6, 2011 11:27 AM
Subject: [Mono-list] Mono Project: Next Steps
Hello folks,
Some of you have been asking about the upcoming release of Mono 2.12.
We hit a little bit of a bump in the road with the layoff of the Mono team,
but we have now re-constituted the team at Xamarin and we are getting back to
speed. Our first priority at Xamarin is to ensure that our amazing team of
hackers remains employed, so we are focused on creating amazing products for
the mobile space. Of course, our products are entirely based on Mono, and as
you can see from the commits to the various Mono modules, a lot of our energy
goes into improving Mono.
To get the 2.12 release to your hands, here’s what we still need to do:
(a) We need to be able to build packages
(b) We need to be able to host the software
(c) We need to adopt the branching and release procedures.
During the transition to Xamarin, we lost our build engineer. But luckily at
Xamarin we’ve hired Alex Corrado, a very talented developer who’s created a new
build system for Mono. The good news is that we are making progress and we are
now able to build Linux and MacOS packages. Next, Alex is working on Windows
builds. We are not there yet, but we will be there in the next couple of weeks.
Once we have packages, we will setup a new website for the Mono project
where we can host the software and the other project resources, like a wiki,
forums, etc. So we are working on a separate domain to host both a Mono web
site and the software, and that should be up in the next week or two.
Once we have something ready, we will share the information with the rest of
the world and give access to the new Wiki to the various maintainers to help us
keep the content up to date.
Thank you for your patience and your love for Mono!
Miguel
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