Hello,
this is my first post to this list. My name is Timotheus Pokorra, I am
from Germany, and I am also interested to get an uptodate version of
Mono into Fedora and later into CentOS or Epel.
I am developing and deploying OpenPetra, an administration software
under GPL for charities and mission organisations, on CentOS.
https://www.openpetra.org
I am maintaining Mono packages on OBS for various linux distributions:
https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor/home:tpokorra:mono
Obviously it is quite easy because there are no rules to follow.
I understand that a distribution like Fedora needs packaging rules,
and the rules have a good reason.
I am not working on this currently. Some one should inform upstream
that it doesn't build for GCC 5 / C++ 11.
It seems that Mono 4.0 Alpha1 builds
fine on Rawhide:
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/elsupergomez/mono-4/build/85185/
I have added a comment to:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1089426
IMHO I think we should focus on getting Mono 4.0 into Fedora
(according to the "First" foundation of Fedora...)
All the best,
Timotheus