[Opensim-dev] mono & the client

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> I can see that using the most recent release version may be beneficial. 
> One concern I have is the often difficult update process for mono, and 
> the default versions that ship with popular linux distributions may not 
> be the latest release version. I would prefer that if bugs are uncovered 
> using popular versions, that we may want to address those bugs and only 
> recommend upgrading as a last resort. This would allow a wider adoption 
> than if we mandated the most recent mono version.  Along the same lines, 
> there are circumstances where updating to the latest versions may be 
> impractical or even impossible, such as in some rental servers or other 
> circumstances where the user may not have the necessary capability to 
> upgrade.

+1  Distributions such as Ubuntu, Mandriva and openSUSE are still on 1.9.1.

Personally, I doubt that the vast majority of the problems encountered by our users have bugs in Mono as the cause - 
they are far more likely to be our bugs.  These people will probably not benefit by having to do a manual Mono upgrade.

> 
> This does not mean we should ignore newer versions. Testing on the 
> latest release and or bleeding edge can provide more insight into what 
> future popular releases hold in store.
> 
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> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 8:31 PM, Nebadon Izumi <nebadon2025 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:nebadon2025 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     slight correction on the last sentence, should have read:
>     now that 2.0 is no longer beta we should not be using 1.9.1 IMHO
>     because it does not encompass the full mono capabilities and
>     performance enhancements that  the **official** version offers.
> 
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>     On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 9:29 PM, Nebadon Izumi
>     <nebadon2025 at gmail.com <mailto:nebadon2025 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>         According to the Mono project website 2.0.1 is the current
>         official release, and 1.9.1 is also considered a beta release of
>         Mono and was never considered an official release of the
>         software, it was always considered Beta 2.0, now that 2.0 is no
>         longer beta we should not be using 1.9.1 IMHO because it does
>         not encompass the full mono capabilities and performance
>         enhancements that  the beta version offers.
> 
>         http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html
> 
>         Neb
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