[Opensim-dev] [opensim 0005007]: Some scripts require installing more than the default mono release

[Melanie]

Since Mono has the CodeDom stuff, it makes no sense to omit the
compiler. At least enough of the compiler stuff has to be included
to make CodeDom work.
If CodeDom libs are included, but the coompiler is not, that is a
broken installation causing difficult to diagnose failures.

I call that a bug. Shipping mono without a compiler isn't proper
unless the CodeDom part of the libraries is also packaged with the
compiler.

CodeDom transparently executes the compiler and will fail in
nonobvious ways if it's not there.

Melanie

Mike Dickson wrote:
>   On 09/26/2010 09:29 PM, Melanie wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> first off, it's not a change in mono. It's a change in how
>> distributions package mono. It means that the Debian packagers seem
>> to be at fault.
>>
> Pretty much every major distro I'm aware of ships Mono as runtime and 
> development packages to support applications *using* mono but not 
> requiring development. Fedora, Debian based distros like Ubuntu, etc., 
> have been this way for a while.  This isn't a distro bug. It makes 
> perfect sense for the distros to do this so a mono runtime exists where 
> its needed.
> 
> That being said, its not an issue with OpenSim, other than perhaps a 
> dependency that could be noted in release notes.
> 
> Mike
> 
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