F23 System Wide Change: Mono 4

[Neal Gompa]

On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 8:49 AM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> >> >> Mono is updated in Rawhide. Can a proven-packager run a script to
> >> >> rebuild all the packages that require mono.
> >> >>
> >> >> -Thanks.
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> >> > With mono-2.x not able to build in Fedora 22, and zero mono-based
> >> > applications on the critical path (that is, none are required for any
> >> > given
> >> > spin), could mono 4 be pushed out to F22 in updates along with working
> >> > builds of all the mono-dependent packages? I'd rather not see Fedora
> 22
> >> > be
> >> > without any mono support for the entirety of its life cycle...
> >>
> >> No, there's a lot of packages with mono bindings that are on the
> >> critical path, avahi for example, this is WAY to invasive for F-22.
> >>
> >> Peter
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> >
> > But the bindings themselves aren't used in the critical path. We don't
> even
>
> They're not used but they're built against the version of mono in Fedora
>
> > bundle mono into any spin anymore. We couldn't even if we wanted to
> because
> > mono-2.x isn't building in F22. If these Timotheus and others can pull
> > together the fixes needed to get all the packages up and going again,
> could
> > it not be pushed as a post-F22 release update?
>
> No, it's extremely unlikely, we generally don't rebase entire dev
> stacks post release for good reason, it's very invasive
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​So we won't have mono stuff working for F22 then?​



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