2008/9/8 David Nielsen gnomeuser@gmail.com:
Den 8. sep. 2008 19.48 skrev Paul paul@all-the-johnsons.co.uk:
Hi,
I've just been notified that RC1 of Mono is due to be tagged today at some point with RC2 (final) on the 10th. Given the date difference of only 2 days, I'll be packaging Mono 2.0 for rawhide.
Future plans.
Currently the mono stack for Fedora is a bit of a mess over the three versions available. What I'm proposing for future mono/libgdiplus releases is this.
Mono 2.0 is released on the 10th and packaged for rawhide Mono 1.9.1 is then released on F9
The stack is then rebuilt to cover gtk-sharp2 et al so that by the end of the process rawhide is one version ahead of core.
When Mono 2 becomes 2.9, version 2 is released onto core and so on. This, in theory, should kill the problems experienced with the likes of monodevelop in core. It also means that core is operating on the stable release.
An alternative is that after a couple of months proving on rawhide, the rawhide version is pushed to core.
I admit I much prefer the latter method, it keeps the stack roughly the same accross releases which means our users have access to the latest bug fixes and a version that is supported by upstream. It also keeps the amount of code actively supported as low as possible. Aggressively pushing vetted versions of the Mono stack seems like the wisest plan to me. As a bonus, we also gain the ability to push the latest and thus often the only supported version of Mono using apps in our stable repos, something our users expect - just watch the Banshee mailing list, not only do our users expect the latest to be available but upstreams first reply to potential problems is nearly always to install the latest supported version.
I concur; the Mono stack seems to be monotonically (pun alert!) increasing in usability, that the benefits of maintaining a single Mono major version across our supported releases outweigh the stability concerns.
Would we have time to get 2.0 into F-9, and rebuild the Mono stack there, or do we need an interim release of currently-FTBFS Mono packages? (thinking of Monodevelop here. Wouldn't want it blacklisted)