bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package

bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package

[zamfofex]

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>

Re: bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package

[Maxim Cournoyer]

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them optionally it seems, and the mono we carry is severely outdated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

bug#55026: potential prebuilt binaries in the Mono package

[Maxime Devos]

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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 them optionally it seems, and the mono we carry is severely outdated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

[Zhu Zihao]

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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

[Maxim Cournoyer]

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