From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: Updating mono. Adding MSBuild. Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2019 07:43:46 +0100 Message-ID: <874l7o4y1p.fsf@elephly.net> References: <875zs5c72r.fsf@posteo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59869) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h92I1-0008De-2m for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 02:43:57 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h92I0-0006ZA-8W for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 02:43:57 -0400 Received: from sender-of-o51.zoho.com ([135.84.80.216]:21044) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1h92Hz-0006Yb-UY for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Mar 2019 02:43:56 -0400 In-reply-to: <875zs5c72r.fsf@posteo.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Brett Gilio Cc: Guix-devel 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 Our mono package is pretty severely out of date.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 =E2=80=9Cmono=E2=80=9D package to build the new Mono? (I don=E2=80=99t know what MSBuild is and how it would help here.) --=20 Ricardo