From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Brett Gilio <brettg@posteo.net>
Cc: Guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Updating mono. Adding MSBuild.
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 07:43:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874l7o4y1p.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zs5c72r.fsf@posteo.net>
Hi Brett,
thank you for looking into this.
> Our mono package is pretty severely out of date. I want to take care of
> updating it to a version consistent with this century. However, there
> seems to be an issue perhaps along the lines similar to bootstrapping
> Rust and JDK.
>
> Mono, for most distributions, seems to be bootstrapped with a prebuilt
> binary mono-lite. Due to this, I am unsure of how to make the first step
> in correctly repackaging Mono.
Instead of adding a new binary mono-lite, can we reuse the existing
“mono” package to build the new Mono?
(I don’t know what MSBuild is and how it would help here.)
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-27 6:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-27 3:46 Updating mono. Adding MSBuild Brett Gilio
2019-03-27 6:43 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-03-27 11:23 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2019-03-29 19:14 ` Brett Gilio
2019-03-29 19:18 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2019-04-01 19:19 ` Brett Gilio
2019-04-02 8:17 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2020-01-26 15:58 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-20 10:06 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2020-02-20 16:49 ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-03-27 11:37 ` Danny Milosavljevic
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