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๐Ÿ”— Mono 3

๐Ÿ”— Summary

Update the Mono stack in Fedora from 2.10 to 4.*

๐Ÿ”— Owner

๐Ÿ”— Current status

๐Ÿ”— Detailed Description

Support for Mono versions 3.0 and 2.10 is been discontinued. No further development of bug fixing is planned for those branches. Mono 4 is the active branch an have many improvements . See upstream notes http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/4.0.0/

๐Ÿ”— Benefit to Fedora

Fedora aims to showcase the latest in free and open source software - we should have the most recent release of Mono 4.0.1

It will have the ability to run cross-platform applications that require compatibility with Microsoft. Net Framework 4.5

๐Ÿ”— Scope

  • Proposal owners:

Update mono spec and build in koji until is ready.

  • Other developers:

Some packages may need to be revised, updated or rebuilt, see Dependencies section

  • Release engineering: None
  • Policies and guidelines: None

๐Ÿ”— Upgrade/compatibility impact

Mono 4 includes most of the features of Mono 2.10 and Mono 3 branch. The profiles 2.0, 3.5 and 4.0 will not be build any more in favor of profile 4.5. This require that all application target for this target move to 4.5. General is a simple task to sed .sln, .cproj, configure, configure.in, configure.am, Makefile, Makefile.in, Makefile.am for use mcs instead gmcs and change profile < 4.5 to 4.5. The files to sed change depending in what form is distributed the sources. In most off the cases only configure files need sed. A few package work without changes like gnome-subtitle or pinta The fixes is work in progress on https://github.com/elsupergomez/lbs-mono-fedora and https://github.com/tpokorra/lbs-mono-fedora Actually is available a copr repo on https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/tpokorra/mono/monitor/

๐Ÿ”— How To Test

Interested testers do not need special hardware. Take a given Mono application and test it against the Mono at this copr repo and verify it works:

* http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/tpokorra/mono/

Any issue will be reported in github https://github.com/elsupergomez/lbs-mono-fedora or https://github.com/tpokorra/lbs-mono-fedora

๐Ÿ”— User Experience

User should note speedy improvement running Mono applications.

Some applications will have features only supported if used Mono 4

๐Ÿ”— Dependencies

The current status of the fixes for build and run on Mono 4 is in https://github.com/elsupergomez/lbs-mono-fedora/blob/master/README.md

  • OpenTK
  • RepetierHost
  • avahi-sharp
  • banshee
  • banshee-community-extensions
  • bareftp
  • bless
  • boo
  • cdcollect
  • dbus-sharp
  • dbus-sharp-glib
  • docky
  • gbrainy
  • gdata-sharp
  • gecko-sharp2
  • gio-sharp
  • giver
  • gkeyfile-sharp
  • gmime
  • gnome-desktop-sharp
  • gnome-do
  • gnome-guitar
  • gnome-keyring-sharp
  • gnome-rdp
  • gnome-sharp
  • gnome-subtitles
  • graphviz
  • gsf-sharp
  • gtk-sharp-beans
  • gtk-sharp2
  • gtksourceview-sharp
  • gudev-sharp
  • hyena
  • keepass
  • kimono
  • libappindicator
  • libgpod
  • log4net
  • mono-addins
  • mono-basic
  • mono-bouncycastle
  • mono-cecil-flowanalysis
  • mono-debugger
  • mono-reflection
  • mono-tools
  • mono-zeroconf
  • monobristol
  • monodevelop
  • monodevelop-debugger-gdb
  • monosim
  • nant
  • ndesk-dbus
  • ndesk-dbus-glib
  • nini
  • notify-sharp
  • pdfmod
  • pinta
  • poppler-sharp
  • python-elasticsearch
  • qyoto
  • rescene
  • shogun
  • sparkleshare
  • syntastic
  • taglib-sharp
  • themonospot-base
  • themonospot-console
  • themonospot-gui-gtk
  • themonospot-gui-qt
  • themonospot-plugin-avi
  • themonospot-plugin-mkv
  • thrift
  • tomboy
  • uwsgi
  • webkit-sharp
  • xsp

๐Ÿ”— New packages for mono stack

๐Ÿ”— Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: Still in Mono 2.10
  • Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
  • Blocks release? No
  • Blocks product? Monodevelop >= 5

๐Ÿ”— Documentation

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Mono

https://github.com/mono/mono

๐Ÿ”— Release Notes

http://www.mono-project.com/docs/about-mono/releases/