On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 15:08 -0600, 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 released. No problem, given the regularity with which Ubuntu > updates their packages, so I waited. >
The Ubuntu mono team is pretty much a subset of the Debain CLI team, and the core maintainer of the mono package itself is a Debian dev (Mirco Bauer). This is good, in that we can ensure that Debian & Ubuntu stay in sync and the work we do reaches the greatest possible audience. It's occasionally a bit awkward, too, when Debian freezes and stays frozen for a while. Now that Sid is open again, Mono 2.10.1 is being prepared (and should be in Experimental soonish). It's quite a big job, and there are always a bunch of subtleties (in this case, a switch to the 4.0 profile). Given how far past feature freeze we are I would not expect to see a new mono in Natty, but it'll be available in Oneric almost immediately. Jo Shields (directhex) is part of the awesome core of ubuntu-cli and runs http://badgerports.org/ for LTS releases; the news page of badgerports suggests that you might want to try his Monoxide PPA for 2.10 once it's done in Debian. > A short while ago, I contributed a patch to the IronPython standard > library. I received a somewhat acid comment that my patch had not been > tested on Mono/Linux. True, it had not. I downloaded the current > source of IronPython from github, and discovered that I cannot build, > because my version of Mono is too old. In order to get a current > version of Mono, my sources suggested, just switch to Redhat!!! WTF?! > _Redhat_ has the latest stuff and Ubuntu is dragging in ancient > history? > > Something is wrong here! > > IronPython 2.7 was released last week, with my patch and without the > requested test. > > Other than grouching on this list, what can I do to get my favourite > distro up to speed? The CLI team hang out in #debian-cli on OFTC. Packaging help is always appreciated, and we're pretty friendly there :). That said, there's a *lot* of policy and technical work involved in updating Mono. There are probably still some Debian patches to test if they're still needed and forward-port, which would potentially be suitable for someone without a familiarity with the vagaries of Mono packaging. Chris
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