[Opensim-dev] Raise minimum mono version to 2.6

[Dahlia Trimble]

Nobody is asking you to use an older version. The minimum version is simply
the earliest version that would be required to run OpenSimulator. Anyone is
free to use any later version if they so choose.

It's also not true that later versions are necessarily better. I've
personally had to disable features in OpenSimulator and remove them from
core due to newer versions of Mono which introduced new bugs that made such
features unusable.


On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Ilan Tochner <ilan at kitely.com> wrote:

> Mono 2.10 was released Feb 15th, 2011, i.e almost two years ago. I don't
> think there is any target platform that mono 2.6 runs on that doesn't have
> mono 2.10 working on it as well.
>
> There have been many bug fixes in mono between the 2.6 release and the
> 2.10 release, some of which can definitely effect OpenSim performance and
> stability. Who would choose to use the older mono version when a better one
> has been available for at least two years? If someone reports a problem
> with OpenSim I think we should require them to at least test it using mono
> 2.10 so we can rule out the older mono being the cause of the problem.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ilan Tochner
> Co-Founder and CEO
> Kitely Ltd.
>
> On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 4:28 AM, Dahlia Trimble <dahliatrimble at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I think the point is raise it to the minimum version which supports the
>> codebase. If there was some feature in 2.10 that did not exist in 2.6 and
>> that feature was required for proper execution, then 2.10 would be a better
>> target. Otherwise it would just be forcing people to upgrade who would not
>> otherwise need to.
>>
>> There's nothing stopping anyone from upgrading to 2.10 if they desire,
>> however, requiring a higher version than is really necessary limits
>> potential users of the software to those who are able to install those
>> versions in their setups. If a goal of OpenSimulator developers is wide
>> adoption, then it makes sense to have it be usable on as many existing
>> hardware/software configurations as possible.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Ilan Tochner <ilan at kitely.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I second setting 2.10 as the base. If we'll be forcing people to upgrade
>>> I think we should upgrade to the latest stable release and not to one that
>>> is outdated.
>>>
>>> If OpenSim works fine with 3.0 then I'd vote for it to be the base. If
>>> we're still calling OpenSim alpha we should at least get the benefits of
>>> doing so. Supporting old versions of mono is a waste of developer resources.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Ilan Tochner
>>> Co-Founder and CEO
>>> Kitely Ltd.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:20 PM, Trinity <trinity93 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> if we can get a way with it why not go to 2.10 else quickly be out of
>>>> date agian
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 9:38 AM, James Hughes <jamesh at bluewallgroup.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> +1
>>>>>
>>>>> On 01/24/2013 10:29 PM, Justin Clark-Casey wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Whilst writing JsonStore regression tests this evening, I hit the
>>>>>> problem where modInvoke script methods of more than 4 parameters
>>>>>> cannot
>>>>>> be registered on Mono 2.4.3 as it doesn't implement the required
>>>>>> larger
>>>>>> multi-parameter Func generic types.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Therefore, I want to bump the minimum Mono version for OpenSimulator
>>>>>> up
>>>>>> to 2.6 which was released more than 3 years ago. This also involves
>>>>>> bumping the minimum .net framework version up to 4.0, as also detailed
>>>>>> at [1]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [1] http://opensimulator.org/**mantis/view.php?id=5971<http://opensimulator.org/mantis/view.php?id=5971>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Any comments?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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