On Sat, 2002-07-06 at 16:35, Paolo Molaro wrote: > On 07/06/02 Guenther Roith wrote: > > > BTW, if the compiled mcs and class libs are platform independent and > > > still needed to jump start the build, why aren't they checked in the cvs > > > under some tools modules, referenced in the makefiles and overwritten by > > > use of env vars? The end result would be to provide a self sufficient > > > > There are binaries in the the cvs in /mono/runtime/ , but they are nearly > > always out-dated. > > If you use them mono will throw an error. > > The files are there only if you put them there. > > > They could be updated more often, I don't know why they aren't. > > Because ever changing binary files don't belong in cvs. > > > If there is no reason, I could check them in, say once a week or so (or > > daily, but this might be to much traffic). > > No, people can use the package snapshots (deb, rpm and windows that > contain them) or the monocharge tarballs from > http://www.atoker.com/mono/. > > lupus
I can understand that one wouldn't want to have them in the cvs. Nevertheless I think, having the bootstrap-binaries in a special package would be a good idea, as well as including a howto in the webpage. -- Ulf
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