[Opensim-dev] mono & the client

[James Stallings II]

Mono SVN FTW - it's no more difficult to build than opensim (though it does
have a few more pieces) and the benefits, if you aplly all the tweaks, are
significant.

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 8:15 AM, Justin Clark-Casey <
jjustincc at googlemail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >     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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