Re: Jaunty pre-freeze Freeze Exception Request: monodevelop

2008-11-20 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 20/11/2008, at 13.26, Sarah Hobbs wrote: >> The harm has already been done by letting monodevelop into the >> distribution. Although I would advocate a removal, the next-best >> thing >> is to leave monodevelop at version 1.0 >> > Morten, this is a packaging list. This is a list for gettin

Re: Jaunty pre-freeze Freeze Exception Request: monodevelop

2008-11-20 Thread Sarah Hobbs
Morten Kjeldgaard wrote: > Mono is evil software and is a mere trojan carrying a patent bomb from > Microsoft waiting to explode. Imagine a situation where hundreds of > essential packages based on Mono exists in Ubuntu, Office apps, > Internet apps, etc. and Microsoft decides to pull their o

Re: Jaunty pre-freeze Freeze Exception Request: monodevelop

2008-11-20 Thread Morten Kjeldgaard
On 19/11/2008, at 17.18, Jo Shields wrote: > If not, then I feel the best plan is to leave the current (1.0) > version > of the package in place. Mono is evil software and is a mere trojan carrying a patent bomb from Microsoft waiting to explode. Imagine a situation where hundreds of essen

Re: Jaunty pre-freeze Freeze Exception Request: monodevelop

2008-11-19 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 13:41 -0500, Nicolas Valcárcel wrote: > On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 11:22 -0600, Luke L wrote: > > > > Mono itself, and the C# compiler, are up-to-date, with CLI 2.0 and C# > > 3.0. > This worries me a lot, if the whole mono suit is updated (compilers, > libraries, etc...) it will

Re: Jaunty pre-freeze Freeze Exception Request: monodevelop

2008-11-19 Thread Jo Shields
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 11:22 -0600, Luke L wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > The "monodevelop" package in Ubuntu has been stuck on the same version > > for an eternity, and users are (rightly) annoyed at its bugs & lack of > > features.

Re: Jaunty pre-freeze Freeze Exception Request: monodevelop

2008-11-19 Thread Nicolas Valcárcel
On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 11:22 -0600, Luke L wrote: > > Mono itself, and the C# compiler, are up-to-date, with CLI 2.0 and C# > 3.0. This worries me a lot, if the whole mono suit is updated (compilers, libraries, etc...) it will break a lot of other tools and recompiling almost the entire archive wil

Re: Jaunty pre-freeze Freeze Exception Request: monodevelop

2008-11-19 Thread Luke L
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Jo Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > The "monodevelop" package in Ubuntu has been stuck on the same version > for an eternity, and users are (rightly) annoyed at its bugs & lack of > features. However, we have long been cautioned by upstream not to use >

Jaunty pre-freeze Freeze Exception Request: monodevelop

2008-11-19 Thread Jo Shields
Hi, The "monodevelop" package in Ubuntu has been stuck on the same version for an eternity, and users are (rightly) annoyed at its bugs & lack of features. However, we have long been cautioned by upstream not to use any SVN snapshots or alpha tarballs in a stable release, as they would become impo