[Opensim-dev] Mono minimum version bump

[Melanie]

In this particular case, there is a bug in Mono that triggers, among 
other places, in the new InventoryConnector. It's quite reproducible 
and definitely not present in 2.4.2.

Melanie

Nebadon Izumi wrote:
> I hate to say this, but there is absolutly no safe or stable version of mono
> from my perspective, it doesnt matter what version of mono OSgrid is
> running, our plazas are crashing all day long, we are lucky to get 30
> minutes in a region that has people in it.. for well over a month now our
> Speedbuilds and Primwords games on Sunday and our Tuesday Meetings have been
> absolutely terrible.  I honestly dont  think it matters what version of mono
> your running, they are all quite terrible in terms of providing any kind of
> stability or performance.  So i have to -1 this bump theory, I dont think
> its valid honestly.  Can you be more specfic about the bug and why you dont
> think its present in later versions of mono?  and maybe you can explain why
> our Windows based regions can run for weeks at a time, while our Mono plazas
> cant even seem to run a full hour?
> 
> Neb
> 
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 12:43 PM, Melanie <melanie at t-data.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> after discovering a bug in the 2.0.1 version of mono, which causes
>> frequent crashing of regions, we have taken the step to bump the
>> minimum required mono version to 2.4.2+.
>>
>> This has become necessary because the bug is rather difficult to
>> isolate and therefore impossible to work around reliably.
>>
>> We do understand that this may cause difficulties for some people,
>> who have been relying on packaged binary versions of Mono. Version
>> 2.4.2 is recent enough to have no binary packages, so it will be
>> necessary to build Mono from source. However, we feel it is
>> unavoidable at this time, as we can't recommend or endorse a Mono
>> version that we know to contain a showstopper bug.
>>
>> On the upside, 2.4.2 has much better performance and stability,
>> compared to 2.0.1.
>>
>> Melanie
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