From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 22 05:33:43 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7210816A4CE for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:33:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from straycat.dhs.org (h0050da134090.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.60.174.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E1D1F43D48 for ; Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:33:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: (qmail 8353 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2004 05:33:25 -0000 Received: from compass.straycat.dhs.org (HELO ?192.168.1.32?) (192.168.1.32) by alexandria.straycat.dhs.org with SMTP; 22 Sep 2004 05:33:25 -0000 From: Tom McLaughlin To: bsd-sharp-list@forge.novell.com, FreeBSD Gnome Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 01:35:02 -0400 Message-Id: <1095831302.49246.1.camel@compass.straycat.dhs.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.0FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Mono 1.0.2 (stable) and 1.1.1 (devel) ports available from BSD#. X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 05:33:43 -0000 Just want to let those interested in Mono know that ports for the latest Mono stable release, version 1.0.2, and the latest development snapshot, version 1.1.1, are now available from the BSD# Project. The changes between between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 are minimal as it is a minor bug fix release. Mono 1.1.1 is the first development snapshot on the way towards 1.2 which will be the next production milestone. It is as of yet untested and from some reading may pose issues for some current applications. I've seen reports of problems with Muine but haven't had time to investigate them. The port changes made for this release are rather large. Mono can now utilize multiple GAC locations. Some applications previously had issues when not installed into the same prefix as the Mono runtime which would cause program execution failures while some .NET assemblies when installed elsewhere would cause program compilation failures. This would present a problem for any application using Mono but required to install in X11BASE with Gnome. In turn I've replaced bin/mono with a dinky shell script that adds /usr/X11R6 to the know GAC prefix locations and moved the mono runtime binary to bin/mono-bin. I've also moved gtk- sharp to its rightful spot in X11BASE. So far I can compile and run GTK# applications just fine but it is something to be aware of since I've had to patch most libraries to install correctly into an alternate prefix. Hopefully I haven't missed anything though I may have. As always, you can obtain the mono-merge script from the BSD# page at: http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?bsd-sharp For some reason right now Novell Forge won't show the latest scripts so you are better off downloading it directly from: http://ftp.novell.com/pub/forge/bsd-sharp/mono-merge/MONO_HEAD/mono- merge.tar.gz As for a minor bit of gloating... All these ports are available before Ximian has even announced their official release. That's right, you as a FreeBSD user have the latest Mono packages available first! In closing, let me know if you have any questions. Thanks. Tom -------------------------------------------------------- BSD# Project http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?bsd-sharp