F23 System Wide Change: Mono 4

[Dan Horák]

On Mon, 4 May 2015 05:02:29 -0400 (EDT)
Jan Kurik <jkurik at redhat.com> wrote:

> = Proposed System Wide Change: Mono 4 =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mono_4
> 
> Change owner(s): Claudio Rodrigo Pereyra Diaz
> <elsupergomez at fedoraproject.org>
> 
> Update the Mono stack in Fedora from 2.10 to 4.* 
> 
> == Detailed Description ==
> Support for Mono versions 3.0 and 2.10 is been discontinued. No
> further development of bug fixing is planned for those branches. Mono
> 4 is the active branch an have many improvements . See upstream notes
> http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/4.0.0/
> 
> Mono require it self to build. Actual version 2.10.8 is to old to
> build version 4 that require at less version 3.4. At the moment on
> copr we use monolite a little version of mono compiler shipped in the
> tarball for first build time.
> 
> We have two option to upgrade:
> * Upgrade mono to version 3.4, then to version 3.12 and then to
> version 4.0.1 on rawhide (actually 3.4 don't build on rawhide this
> need fixed)
> * Make a one time exception of the rule for build mono 4.0.1-1 using
> monolite, later make mono depend again on it self and rebuild mono
> 4.0.1-2 using mono-4.0.1-1 .

as Mono 4 adds support for the ppc64le architecture (and aarch64
support was probably added earlier), we (the Secondary arches team)
would like to see a full bootstrap and subsequent update of %mono_arches

For any questions regarding secondary arches, please don't hesitate to
contact us.


		Dan