[Opensim-users] Fwd: [Opensim-dev] Mono minimum version bump

[James Stallings II]

There is a binary distribution package for mono 2.4+ on openSUSE, though it
is only available as an update to a previously installed 2.0.1 binary
distribution package.
Cheers,
James


On Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Teravus Ovares <teravus at gmail.com> wrote:

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Melanie <melanie at t-data.com>
> Date: Sun, Sep 27, 2009 at 3:43 PM
> Subject: [Opensim-dev] Mono minimum version bump
> To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>
>
> 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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