On Fri, 2004-12-17 at 14:31 +0000, Paul wrote: > Hi, > > > There are no RPMs that I am aware of, so I built it from source. > > There are RPMs for 1.0.5 for FC3 (so I was told with a big stick on the > mono-devel list!) Thanks for the pointer, but i just went to: http://www.mono-project.com/downloads/index.html and I didn't find Fedora Core 3 listed. I also read: http://go-mono.com/archive/1.0.5/ and there is no mention of Fedora Core 3. There was also no mention of Fedora Core 3 on: http://www.go-mono.com/packagers/ I just scanned the developer mailing list via news.gmane.org, and while I saw lots of information about Fedora Core 2, I saw no information about Fedora Core 3. There is a thread on the general mailing list that discusses these issues. One link: http://gfabio.blog.free.fr/?2004/11/23/88-mono-rpms-srpms-for-fedora- core-3 had a blog for an unofficial RPM for Fedora Core 3. However this apparently broke something with Dag's repositories. > http://www.all-the-johnsons.co.uk/mono/mono-building.html may help Was not found on your server I think you meant to post: http://www.all-the-johnsons.co.uk/mono/mono-compiling.html I found this buried in the general mailing list after I accessed it from news.gmane.org. > Basically, make sure you have gtkhtml3-devel and glade-devel installed > and things go a lot smoother! You will also need gtksourceview-sharp and gecko-sharp which you have to build and patch from source if you want MonoDoc (and possibly MonoDevelop). > > The Mono newsgroups have not been very helpful either. Read the complete absence of posts on forums.novell.com. I'm now downloading the mailing lists from news.gmane.org to see if there is more complete information. After scanning the general and development lists for Mono, there seems to be the same issue brought up with Fedora Core 3. The solution offered by one core member was to pressure your distribution to package up the environment. Mono 1.0.4 had VB support as a pre-release feature and not a supported aspect of the released software. I have not found the corresponding page for 1.0.5. I'm not knocking Mono in any way. I do think that the information available and its organization place significant barriers in getting started with Mono. I an interested in Mono as a learning tool for C#, and I'm not enjoying these extra barriers. ----- /mde/ just my two cents . . . .
