Changes/Mono 4

Mono 3

Summary

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

Owner

• Name: Claudio Rodrigo Pereyra Diaz
• Email: <elsupergomez@fedoraproject.org>
• Release notes owner:

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 23
• Last updated: April 29, 2015
• Tracker bug: #1089278

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/

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

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

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/

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/elsupergomez/mono/ 
* http://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/olea/Mono_3-Fedora_Feature/monitor/

User Experience

User should note speedy improvement running Mono applications.

Some applications will have features only supported if used Mono 3.4.

Dependencies

Package	x86_64	i686	arm
OpenTK	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
RepetierHost	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
avahi	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
banshee	Tested	Need Test	Need Test
banshee-community-extensions	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
bareftp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
bless	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
boo	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
cdcollect	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
dbus-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
dbus-sharp-glib	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
docky	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
f-spot	Tested	Need Test	Need Test
flickrnet	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gbrainy	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gdata-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gecko-sharp2	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gio-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
giver	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gkeyfile-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gmime	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gnome-desktop-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gnome-do	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gnome-do-plugins	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gnome-guitar	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gnome-keyring-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gnome-rdp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gnome-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gnome-subtitles	Tested	Need Test	Need Test
graphviz	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gsf-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gtk-sharp-beans	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gtk-sharp2	Tested	Tested	Need Test
gtksourceview-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
gudev-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
hyena	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
ice	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
kimono	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
libappindicator	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
libgdiplus	Tested	Tested	Need Test
libgpod	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
log4net	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
mono-addins	Tested	Tested	Need Test
mono-basic	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
mono-bouncycastle	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
mono-cecil-flowanalysis	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
mono-debugger	Need Revision	Need Test	Need Test
mono-reflection	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
mono-tools	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
mono-zeroconf	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
monobristol	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
monodevelop	Tested	Tested	Need Test
monodevelop-debugger-gdb	Tested	Tested	Need Test
monodevelop-vala	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
monosim	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
nant	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
ndesk-dbus	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
ndesk-dbus-glib	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
notify-sharp	Tested	Tested	Need Test
pdfmod	Tested	Need Test	Need Test
pinta	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
poppler-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
qyoto	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
rescene	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
sparkleshare	Tested	Need Test	Need Test
taglib-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
taoframework	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
themonospot-base	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
themonospot-console	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
themonospot-gui-gtk	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
themonospot-gui-qt	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
themonospot-plugin-avi	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
themonospot-plugin-mkv	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
thrift	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
tomboy	Tested	Tested	Need Test
webkit-sharp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test
xsp	Need Test	Need Test	Need Test

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: Still in Mono 2.10
• Contingency deadline: Beta freeze
• Blocks release? No
• Blocks product? Monodevelop 4

Documentation

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

https://github.com/mono/mono

Release Notes

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