[Opensim-dev] Mono 4.0 coming changes

[James Hughes]

I would say that it is a matter of not holding people back. This is a
breaking point if mono no longer supports the 4.0 toolset, and I would
say that when a majority of distros make the jump to Mono 4.x, we would
be holding users of those distros back, and we shouldn't. I think that
the users of the minority of distros stuck on versions of Mono before
3.x (that is where toolset 4.5 is supported) would need to just run
OpenSim releases supported on their distro if they are married to that
distro. Windows users are already covered as well.

Just my two cents ...

-BlueWall

On Tue, 2014-12-30 at 05:18 -0800, Dahlia Trimble wrote:
> There already is a profile chosen by the project. If the latest mono
> dev master can't compile with it, then those with the expertise to run
> the latest dev master mono can use that expertise to change the
> profile to a new one. If OpenSimulator doesn't require the new profile
> to run on older installations, then there is no reason to make those
> who use existing working installations, including those using one of
> the most popular server platforms (Debian stable) to go thru the
> effort of upgrading. As of now there is no such dependency in OpenSim
> core. We should add one just so people who insist on the bleeding edge
> mono dev code don't have to change a single line in a single file? If
> they are such linux experts, let them write a script that
> automatically detects and changes it. 
> 
> 
> Much of the real world does not use bleeding edge software and doesn't
> have the resources to update at the drop of a hat. Quite often new
> software has to go thru a vetting process that for large installations
> can even take years. Often educational institutions have IT
> bureaucracies which prevent such updates. Should we cut them off also?
> How about installations that have other .NET applications besides
> OpenSimulator? Will they work with the new Mono? 
> 
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