* bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package
2022-08-12 20:03 ` bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package Maxim Cournoyer
@ 2022-08-12 20:08 ` Maxime Devos
2022-08-13 5:34 ` bug#55026: " Zhu Zihao
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From: Maxime Devos @ 2022-08-12 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maxim Cournoyer, zamfofex; +Cc: guix-devel, 55026
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On 12-08-2022 22:03, Maxim Cournoyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> zamfofex <zamfofex@twdb.moe> writes:
>
>> It seems the package for Mono in Guix uses a tarball that contains a
>> lot of prebuilt DLLs. This doesn’t seem to have been mentioned when
>> the package was introduced. Could it have been a mistake? Some related
>> discussion: <https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/7445> and also
>> <https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2022-04-19.log#195614>
> If nobody volunteers to do the work necessary to get our mono package to
> build without prebuilt binaries in the next 2 weeks, I suggest we remove
> it from our collection. Only a handful package depend on it, most of
> them optionally it seems, and the mono we carry is severely outdated
> (2016).
>
> What do you think?
>
> Maxim
>
I hope someone does the work, but if not, I don't see a problem with
removing it.
Greetings,
Maxime.
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* bug#55026: Re: bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package
2022-08-12 20:03 ` bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package Maxim Cournoyer
2022-08-12 20:08 ` Maxime Devos
@ 2022-08-13 5:34 ` Zhu Zihao
2022-09-01 23:10 ` Maxim Cournoyer
1 sibling, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Zhu Zihao @ 2022-08-13 5:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Maxim Cournoyer; +Cc: guix-devel, zamfofex, 55026
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Agree.
Actually, there's more prebuilt binaries in Mono 6 (current version)
And it's impossible to remove these binaries (see https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1930)
At 2022-08-13 04:03:43, "Maxim Cournoyer" <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>zamfofex <zamfofex@twdb.moe> writes:
>
>> It seems the package for Mono in Guix uses a tarball that contains a
>> lot of prebuilt DLLs. This doesn’t seem to have been mentioned when
>> the package was introduced. Could it have been a mistake? Some related
>> discussion: <https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/7445> and also
>> <https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2022-04-19.log#195614>
>
>If nobody volunteers to do the work necessary to get our mono package to
>build without prebuilt binaries in the next 2 weeks, I suggest we remove
>it from our collection. Only a handful package depend on it, most of
>them optionally it seems, and the mono we carry is severely outdated
>(2016).
>
>What do you think?
>
>Maxim
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* Re: bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package
2022-08-13 5:34 ` bug#55026: " Zhu Zihao
@ 2022-09-01 23:10 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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From: Maxim Cournoyer @ 2022-09-01 23:10 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Zhu Zihao; +Cc: guix-devel, zamfofex, 55026-done
Hello,
Mono was removed from Guix with commit
bd638a8ad6140db87851a86faae89e736e148f3d.
Closing.
Maxim
"Zhu Zihao"
<all_but_last@163.com> writes:
> Agree.
>
>
> Actually, there's more prebuilt binaries in Mono 6 (current version)
>
>
> And it's impossible to remove these binaries (see https://github.com/dotnet/source-build/issues/1930)
>
>
>
>
>
>
> At 2022-08-13 04:03:43, "Maxim Cournoyer" <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>zamfofex <zamfofex@twdb.moe> writes:
>>
>>> It seems the package for Mono in Guix uses a tarball that contains a
>>> lot of prebuilt DLLs. This doesn’t seem to have been mentioned when
>>> the package was introduced. Could it have been a mistake? Some related
>>> discussion: <https://github.com/mono/mono/issues/7445> and also
>>> <https://logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/2022-04-19.log#195614>
>>
>>If nobody volunteers to do the work necessary to get our mono package to
>>build without prebuilt binaries in the next 2 weeks, I suggest we remove
>>it from our collection. Only a handful package depend on it, most of
>>them optionally it seems, and the mono we carry is severely outdated
>>(2016).
>>
>>What do you think?
>>
>>Maxim
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