Re: Mono - Do we have a maintainer?
On 08/15/2018 05:16 AM, Radka Janekova wrote:
mono-devel packages are far behind upstream, and the mono-sig seems unresponsive
as whole. This leads me to a question, do we have a maintainer for mono?
I can take a look at it within the next month or two if there really isn't anyone
else...
Radka,
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 effort by a team in Red Hat to package the
binary sources, but that team seems to be disbanded. Recently Mono has allowed the
MCS compiler again and that has lead to an almost-ready update by community
contributors.
Follow along here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1436896
Thanks,
Michael