Re: IronPython and Mono are very old. How can we get an update?

2011-03-18 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Vernon Cole wrote: > By another strange twist of fate, there is a PPA on launchpad which > allegedly has a current version of mono, but it is only built for LTS > versions of Ubuntu, so to get the latest version of mono, I have to > unload Maverick and install an e

Re: IronPython and Mono are very old. How can we get an update?

2011-03-18 Thread Evan Huus
>From the Ubuntu mono page (http://mono-project.com/DistroPackages/Ubuntu): > Mono is considered a "core framework" in Ubuntu, meaning > it has many applications depending upon it (roughly 40 > applications). Due to this, the chance of one of those > applications breaking due to unexpected changes

Re: IronPython and Mono are very old. How can we get an update?

2011-03-18 Thread Vernon Cole
Hello, Evan, I suppose you noticed that there is not a debian package on the mono download list? Their cross reference links lead to exactly what we already have. By another strange twist of fate, there is a PPA on launchpad which allegedly has a current version of mono, but it is only built for

Re: IronPython and Mono are very old. How can we get an update?

2011-03-18 Thread Evan Huus
Hi Vernon, Welcome to the list. As far as I know this is the right place to raise this sort of question. Which version of mono you have probably depends on which release of Ubuntu you're using. Ubuntu 10.10 (the latest stable release of Ubuntu) has mono 2.6.7 which is the latest long-term stable

Re: IronPython and Mono are very old. How can we get an update?

2011-03-18 Thread scott
On 03/18/2011 05:08 PM, Vernon Cole wrote: Hello. I am new to the list, please forgive and let me know if this is not the appropriate forum. I was very pleased when IronPython appeared on synaptic -- even though I was a bit concerned that the version was 2.6B2 about the time that 2.6 was rele

IronPython and Mono are very old. How can we get an update?

2011-03-18 Thread Vernon Cole
Hello. I am new to the list, please forgive and let me know if this is not the appropriate forum. I was very pleased when IronPython appeared on synaptic -- even though I was a bit concerned that the version was 2.6B2 about the time that 2.6 was released. No problem, given the regularity with w