[Opensim-dev] mono & the client

[Sean Dague]

Justin Clark-Casey 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.

The nhibernate crash related to missing oracle dll was a mono 1.9 bug.
On mono 2.0 it didn't crash the simulator on startup.

While I do understand 1.9.1 is out there a lot, it is a beta mono, and
2.0 is much better.  Sadly a lot of people shipped the beta, and aren't
updating beta -> release in their distros.

	-Sean

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