On May 16, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Daniel Hughes wrote:
> Currently all my volunteer time is going into Wide Margin. And I foresee it
> taking up all my time in the near future.
>
> However my suggestion is that the mono project drops open suse and instead
> supports ubuntu.
> This would require no extra effort. And would get the latest mono to a larger
> user base.
>
This is where you're wrong—it would require extra effort. Not many of the "Mono
team" members use Ubuntu (or any Debian-derivative, which means learning a
whole new set of package management/building tools), and as Jon already pointed
out, there are a very talented set of Debian packagers who do a much better job
of making available proper packages for Debian and Debian derivatives than the
Mono team ever could. There are better things for the newly-minted Xamarin team
to focus on than duplicating work that is already done by two able and willing
hands. If you want up-to-date Ubuntu packages, donate some cash or better yet,
some time to either Mirco Bauer (meebey) or Jo Shields (directhex), who
comprise the Mono packaging tag-team for Debian.
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Slide <slide.o....@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm sure no one would mind if you volunteered to help out.
>
> On May 16, 2011 7:36 PM, "Daniel Hughes" <tramps...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I looking for upto date packages,
> >
> > I"m still waiting for 2.8 packages and 2.10 packages.
> >
> > So what I'm looking for is when a new version of mono is released on the
> > same day the new Ubuntu packages are available. Not a year or two or three
> > later.
> >
> > On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Jonathan Pobst <mon...@jpobst.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On 5/16/2011 8:45 PM, Daniel Hughes wrote:
> >>
> >>> Can we expect official ubuntu support going forward?
> >>>
> >>
> >> How do you define "official ubuntu support"?
> >>
> >> The community has excellent Ubuntu packagers who know the best way to
> >> package Mono for Ubuntu, and submit these packages for inclusion in the
> >> official Ubuntu releases.
> >>
> >> So the short of it is: Mono is already packaged and included in Ubuntu.
> >>
> >> What more than that would you like to see?
> >>
> >> Jonathan
> >>
—Bojan
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