[Opensim-dev] mono & the client
Justin Clark-Casey
jjustincc at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 12 14:15:36 UTC 2008
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.
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> 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:
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> 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:
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> 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.
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> http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html
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