Hello, I read this morning that there was a discussion on IRC about Linux and Windows builds last night.
The page http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html offers downloads for Windows, Linux and Mac, but only the Mac version seems to be updated quickly. I cannot say anything about Windows builds. But the argument regarding Linux builds went into this direction on IRC: It is too much work to build Mono for every conceivable distribution, and manual steps of uploading are involved, etc. The suggestion was to either use the Mono that is part of the distribution, or build it yourself. I think that is not an option for everyone. Some distributions are slow in building Mono, which means you are stuck with an old version. And people should not be burdened to build their own Mono. I have made good experience with the OpenSUSE build service. I have been building the latest stable Mono and MonoDevelop for the past months, for several of the mainstream Linux distributions. The main effort usually was to get the current tarball to build at all. I have had no problems with building for the various distributions, once the package files were in place. Here are the links that I have posted before on this list: http://www.pokorra.de/2013/12/building-the-latest-mono-and-monodevelop-on-obs/ http://www.pokorra.de/2013/12/easy-installation-of-current-mono-and-monodevelop-for-all-major-linux-distributions/ I wonder if someone else wants to do this officially for the Mono team, or if my builds could become somehow official. I am happy to help clarify the process that I use to build the packages. It is already a transparent process, since all parameters are public on the OpenBuild Service. I read in this comment that Xamarin encourages the community to provide support for Linux: http://mikemdblog.blogspot.de/2013/09/how-to-set-up-monodevelop-on-linux.html?showComment=1378643747759#c4019833196943293574 If you would want to put a link from the Mono and MonoDevelop downloads page to my or someone elses Download repository, that would certainly help the Linux community! Here are the links: http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=monodevelop-opt http://software.opensuse.org/download/package?project=home:tpokorra:mono&package=mono-opt Alternatively, for just Ubuntu builds, there is the work by Eberhard: https://launchpad.net/~ermshiperete/+archive/monodevelop Thanks, Timotheus _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
