On Mon, Sep 30, 2019 at 4:04 PM Timotheus Pokorra <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hello all, > > We currently still have Mono 4.6 in Epel7, and no Mono in Epel8 yet [1]. > > I suggest that I bootstrap Mono 5.18 for Epel8. [4] > That is the version that is delivered with Debian 10 "Buster" [2], and I > guess it will get some kind of long term support. > > When that goes well, I would also attempt to upgrade Mono in Epel7 to > version 5.18. > > We need to bootstrap for most minor releases of Mono, because it > requires newer compiler features. I don't like that too much, but it > seems to be like that. [3] > > I don't know if we should have modules for Mono in Epel, or if that is > even possible. I have to admit, at the moment I don't have the time to > maintain multiple versions of Mono. > > Please let me know if you have any suggestions or concerns. > I'm inclined to suggest we go for the gold here and get Mono 6 into EPEL8. It's the latest major stable release and I expect that will be supported for a long time, since it's the base with a brand new version of the C# standard. I have nothing to suggest that there will be any kind of maintained stable branches anywhere beyond the major version maintenance, and that suggests we should move to Mono 6 ASAP. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
