Hi Brett,
thank you for looking into this. > Our mono package is pretty severely out of date. I want to take care of > updating it to a version consistent with this century. However, there > seems to be an issue perhaps along the lines similar to bootstrapping > Rust and JDK. > > Mono, for most distributions, seems to be bootstrapped with a prebuilt > binary mono-lite. Due to this, I am unsure of how to make the first step > in correctly repackaging Mono. Instead of adding a new binary mono-lite, can we reuse the existing “mono” package to build the new Mono? (I don’t know what MSBuild is and how it would help here.) -- Ricardo