Inclusion of mono

[Brian Smith]

Sindre Pedersen Bjordal wrote:

>ons, 05.05.2004 kl. 22.37 skrev Paul:
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>>Hi,
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>>Given it is getting close to the 1.0 release, how about including mono
>>with FC2? Really would make it a knockout product then IMO.
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>>TTFN
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>>Paul
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>To me this is yet another example of how much we need fedora-extras. If
>we could have this one place to get add-on packages for fedora we
>wouldn't have these kind of trouble. 
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Well, if we could get a group together to work on that and set up a 
repository,  I've plenty of space and bandwidth that the university I 
work for would let me use.  We could set up an apt/yum repository and 
get some maintainers together to build solid rpms, get some other people 
to test them and have a real release cycle.  I have a LUG on campus and 
those guys might be interested in doing just that.  I also have some of 
my production software that I have written for beowulf systems that 
could be included as well.

It might also be worth a try to check the licensing for the Sun/IBM 
jre's and jdk's so they can be properly packaged, as well as the 
plethora of browser plugins so that installation of these plugins would 
be much easier.

Mono would be great to include as well as some of the GTK# and Mono apps 
that have been written.  Unfortunately, with the exception of a few 
packages, most of those apps would have to be relegated to a development 
repository for now due to stability.

If anyone is interested in this, let me know.

Brian Smith