[Opensim-dev] Mono minimum version bump

[Snowdrop Short]

Personally I find this constant relying on the latest and greatest
version quite annoying.

Using a version of Mono, which isn't in the published repo's is not only
complicated, but has a tendency to cause problems in other parts of the
OS, at least in Ubuntu it does.

Not only does it cause instabilities, e.g. in Beagle, but it also causes
problems when logging support requests to Canonical.

Isn't it possible to attack the specific crash some other way, e.g. use
a different method or a different sequence of statements?

Although I'm not core, I'd still give this -1


On Sun, 2009-09-27 at 21:43 +0200, Melanie 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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