Hey Tim, On 03/04/14 11:03, Timotheus Pokorra wrote: > Hello, > > I read this morning that there was a discussion on IRC about Linux and > Windows builds last night. > > The page > http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html > offers downloads for Windows, Linux and Mac, but only the Mac version > seems to be updated quickly. > > I cannot say anything about Windows builds. > > But the argument regarding Linux builds went into this direction on IRC: > It is too much work to build Mono for every conceivable distribution, > and manual steps of uploading are involved, etc. > The suggestion was to either use the Mono that is part of the > distribution, or build it yourself. > > I think that is not an option for everyone. Some distributions are > slow in building Mono, which means you are stuck with an old version. > And people should not be burdened to build their own Mono. > > I have made good experience with the OpenSUSE build service.
The project has been renamed some time ago to "Open Build Service", to stop making people think it's OpenSUSE specific, so I don't recommend you to use that name (especially if you're selling us the multi-distro thing ;) ) > I have been building the latest stable Mono and MonoDevelop for the > past months, for several of the mainstream Linux distributions. > The main effort usually was to get the current tarball to build at > all. I have had no problems with building for the various > distributions, once the package files were in place. > > Here are the links that I have posted before on this list: > http://www.pokorra.de/2013/12/building-the-latest-mono-and-monodevelop-on-obs/ > http://www.pokorra.de/2013/12/easy-installation-of-current-mono-and-monodevelop-for-all-major-linux-distributions/ > > I wonder if someone else wants to do this officially for the Mono > team, or if my builds could become somehow official. I am happy to > help clarify the process that I use to build the packages. It is > already a transparent process, since all parameters are public on the > OpenBuild Service. > > I read in this comment that Xamarin encourages the community to > provide support for Linux: > http://mikemdblog.blogspot.de/2013/09/how-to-set-up-monodevelop-on-linux.html?showComment=1378643747759#c4019833196943293574 > > If you would want to put a link from the Mono and MonoDevelop > downloads page to my or someone elses Download repository, that would > certainly help the Linux community! > > Here are the links: > http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=monodevelop-opt > http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=mono-opt Do your packages install somewhere below /opt ? If yes, then I will not recommend them because it's not a standard prefix. AFAIU /opt is an ideal prefix for parallel mono installations. > Alternatively, for just Ubuntu builds, there is the work by Eberhard: > https://launchpad.net/~ermshiperete/+archive/monodevelop WRT Ubuntu/Debian builds, I would rather recommend the PPAs and official repositories of the official mono/monobased-apps packagers: directhex and meebey. _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
