Re: Outdated Mono framework

2014-12-18 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello, > I would like to see Fedora keep up with the Mono upstream as well. > > The Mono 3.4 packaged as a test for F21 months ago worked well > for me on my test OpenSimulators. > > Yes, I would also like to help with bringing Mono uptodate in Fedora. What worries me is how we want to test all

Re: Deprecated mono packages in 3.*

2014-12-22 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Ismael, > Could someone confirm if xsp and mono-debugger are deprecated in 3.*? > > There is no updates at http://origin-download.mono-project.com/sources but > would like to verify it by someone better informed than me. I don't know much about mono-debugger, I am not using it myself. Lookin

Re: Outdated Mono framework

2014-12-22 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
>> is it worth the effort for Mono 3.10? >> Perhaps it is more reasonable to wait for Mono 4.0? That will definitely >> change a lot of things, because it will not support .Net Framework 2.0 >> anymore. > > > > AFAIK the .Net Core model is almost completely different and would need > upstream work

Mono 4 Alpha1

2015-04-09 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello, I have just built a Mono 4.0.0 alpha1 package based on the mono 3.12.1 package from https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/elsupergomez/mono/ It is available here: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/tpokorra/mono/builds/ You can see the diff of the spec file against 3.12.1 here: https://g

Re: Mono 4 Alpha1

2015-04-13 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Moving this conversation back to the Fedora mono list... On 13 April 2015 at 13:29, Claudio Rodrigo wrote: > I think, Mono 3 and 4 must coexist like python 2 and python 3. Unless all > software dependent on profiles 2, 3.5 and 4 migrate to profile 4.5. This is > a huge task like I see, because ma

Re: Mono 4 Alpha1

2015-04-13 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
> Perhaps that repo can be rolled into the mix and the effort here > merged with the effort there for RPMs, and reporting bugs upstream? > > Or at least the group here work with the people building and pushing > those packages there? > > http://www.mono-project.com/download/#download-lin You are co

Re: Mono 4 Alpha1

2015-04-15 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
> On 13 April 2015 at 13:29, Claudio Rodrigo wrote: >> I think, Mono 3 and 4 must coexist like python 2 and python 3. Unless all >> software dependent on profiles 2, 3.5 and 4 migrate to profile 4.5. This is >> a huge task like I see, because many package depend on this profiles. What >> do you th

Re: Mono 4 Alpha1

2015-04-15 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
To report back on these questions: > Actually, there is quite a big number of dll files in the source > tarball, see the list at the end of this email. > > How should we go about this? > I have also sent an email to the upstream mono packagers list to ask > Jo Shields who is employed by Xamarin and

Re: Mono 4 Alpha1

2015-04-16 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
> When I am happy with the result, I will upload to copr again. I have now uploaded Mono 4 alpha1, and also KeePass and MonoDevelop 5.7 to my copr account: https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/tpokorra/mono/ Mono4 now even builds for Epel6 and Epel7, by disabling the debug package. I also had to

Re: Mono 4 Alpha1

2015-04-30 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello, this is all looking good! Now with Mono 4.0.1 officially released, nothing can stop us now :) Claudio is doing all the work on the packages, thank you! I wonder if the package owners of the packages depending on Mono will have any work left ;) On 29 April 2015 at 19:28, Claudio Rodrigo wr

current status

2015-11-03 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Mono SIG, I just wanted to congratulate us on the Mono4 in Fedora 23 that was released today! :) Thank you to everyone involved in that project! Here are some points you might want to look at, to improve Mono on Fedora: On the just released Fedora Developer Portal, there is no section abou

upgrading strategy for Mono across the Fedora versions

2015-11-18 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Claudio, and all, I saw you are working on the 4.2 Mono packages now that Xamarin have declared them stable. Thanks for working on this! I agree that Rawhide should get the mono 4.2 package, but I am not sure if we should push mono 4.2 to Fedora 23 as well? The release notes mention that qu

Re: upgrading strategy for Mono across the Fedora versions

2015-11-18 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Claudio, > We could propose a new change for f24 to have mono 4.2 > My be Olea is right. > For the moment I only try build. But not push the update for f23. I think you should do a scratch build instead. https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_the_Koji_build_system#Scratch_Builds If the build f

Fedora Year in Review for the Mono SIG

2016-01-19 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello, I read this article on Fedora Magazine: https://fedoramagazine.org/what-is-a-fedora-year-in-review/ I wonder if we as the Mono SIG should also contribute a blog post on the community blog? Here is a template: https://communityblog.fedoraproject.org/share-your-year-in-review-with-fedora/

Re: Fedora Year in Review for the Mono SIG

2016-01-29 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Raphael, > a contribution to Fedora Magazine about Mono sounds like a good idea to me, > go for it. > > Generally, we need more people interested in the mono package reviews, > indeed especially for OpenRA and its dependencies. The article is online now! https://communityblog.fedoraproject.

Mono 4.3.2 (to be 4.4) in Rawhide

2016-02-27 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello, just to let you know: We now have Mono 4.3.2 in Rawhide. It is called Cycle 7 Alpha. In the #mono IRC I was told that it should have been named Mono 4.4, and the next Alpha release will be from the Mono 4.4 branch. Here are the first drafts of the release notes: http://www.mono-project.com

Re: Mono 4.3.2 (to be 4.4) in Rawhide

2016-03-03 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Raphael, > thanks a lot for sharing the information about new mono. My introduction to > mono topics was due to the OpenRA project, I'm not happy with the OBS > solution of upstream. Please blame me for the unbundling upstream did start > as a following of my first requests. I have read

status update

2016-06-14 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Mono SIG, I thought I write a short update, to keep everyone on the same page. * Fedora 24 will have the latest Mono 4.2 packages, see https://releases.xamarin.com/stable-release-cycle-6-service-release-4/ The package will be submitted to updates after the F24 Freeze. * Fedora 24 MonoDevelo

MonoDevelop 6, NUnit 2 and 3

2016-08-12 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello, I am working on getting MonoDevelop 6 built in Rawhide. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313236 Still quite some work to do. I am even wondering if we should package Roslyn for System.Collections.ImmutableCollections and other assemblies? One thing related to this is the upgrade

Some questions regarding a number of packages depending on Mono

2016-09-14 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello, There is quite some movement, and I wonder what people think. a) WebKit1, webkitgtk removal [1] leads to webkit-sharp [2] and mono-tools [3] being in trouble. mono-tools provides monodoc, which is used for displaying the documentation in MonoDevelop, when you click on Help / API documentat

Re: Some questions regarding a number of packages depending on Mono

2016-09-15 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Ismael, >> c) Fedora packager npmccallum orphaned a number of mono-related >> packages yesterday: >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/gudev-sharp/ >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/gtk-sharp-beans/ >> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/gkeyfile-sharp/ >

Re: Developer portal update

2017-10-11 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Radka, Months later without any response to any of my emails, I urge you, dear Mono Dead Sig, to wake up. The page requires 10 minutes of your attention: https://github.com/developer-portal/content/issues/217 you changed much of the Mono page, so somehow I assumed you had taken responsi

Re: Mono - Do we have a maintainer?

2018-08-17 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello all, Yes, mono is behind, but it isn't a simple reason. The way mono is bootstrapped and compiled has changed starting with version 5.0. The Roslyn compiler is now the default and requires bootstrapping from binary-only sources provided by upstream. This is a no-no in Fedora. There was an

Mono 4 issues and Mono 5

2019-02-21 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Dear members of the Mono SIG group, I have been working in the past week on building Mono 5 for Fedora Rawhide. This has been made possible by the work of directhex, who fixed the build for Debian. For details on his work see https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/7445 The discussion lives at http

Re: Mono 4 issues and Mono 5

2019-03-01 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello all, On 21.02.19 22:41, Radka Janekova wrote: > Awesome Timotheus, thank you for all this work on mono! Thanks Radka! > I will prepare a similar change proposal for Mono 5 for Fedora 31. Here is the change proposal. I hope I did not forget any important information. https://fedoraproj

Re: Mono 4 issues and Mono 5

2019-03-28 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Mono need to be rebuilt. Thank you,   Timotheus On 02.03.19 06:59, Timotheus Pokorra wrote: Hello all, On 21.02.19 22:41, Radka Janekova wrote: > Awesome Timotheus, thank you for all this work on mono! Thanks Radka! > I will prepare a similar change proposal for Mono 5 for Fedora 31.

Re: Koschei group

2019-07-11 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello Peter, Would it be valuable to create a `mono` package group in Koschei? I have a feeling that a few package builds started failing when Mono 5 landed, but it would be nice to be able to see that at a glance. I went ahead and created https://apps.fedoraproject.org/koschei/groups/mavi

Change for Mono 5.20 in Fedora 31

2019-07-11 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello all, I have tried to build Mono 5.20 without bootstrap, but it does not seem to be possible. see https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/15643 and https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1697526 I have now created a change for Fedora 31: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mono_5_20

Mono 6.8 in Rawhide and other updates

2020-06-19 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello friends, here is a quick update. Since the request for a blanket exception for building with bootstrap was accepted [1], things are now quicker to build a new Mono release. I have now released Mono 6.8.0.123 for Fedora Rawhide [2] I have also prepared an update for Fedora 32, from Mono 6.

Issue with Mono on armv7hl segfaulting

2021-06-08 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello, since August 2020 we have an issue with Mono Segfault on armv7hl. This is one bug report (keepass): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1878365 It seems to segfault on processing resource files with resgen.exe Same issue here (pinta): https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=

Issue with Mono on armv7hl segfaulting

2021-07-08 Thread Timotheus Pokorra
Hello, I am resending this email to devel, because I did not get a reply on the ARM list. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/a...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/6DO5RTOBNB6RYY4VS3Z5RMWVVNEK5AF3/ Since August 2020 we have an issue with Mono Segfault on armv7hl. This is one bug repo