Mono 1.0.2 (stable) and 1.1.1 (devel) ports available from BSD#.

[Bhasker Hariharan]

Hey nice stuff:)

Just tried out the 1.1.1 version and it installs fine now..at least the 
gacutil.exe
issue seems to be gone..But well now builds of gtk-sharp etc hang on my
poor 4.8 BSD. i know i know 4.8 is not supported:).. But i keep 
hoping.anyway
just wanted to let you know that you are doing an awesome job:)

-Bhasker

Tom McLaughlin wrote  on 09/22/04 11:05:

>Just want to let those interested in Mono know that ports for the latest
>Mono stable release, version 1.0.2, and the latest development snapshot,
>version 1.1.1, are now available from the BSD# Project.  The changes
>between between 1.0.1 and 1.0.2 are minimal as it is a minor bug fix
>release.  Mono 1.1.1 is the first development snapshot on the way
>towards 1.2 which will be the next production milestone.  It is as of
>yet untested and from some reading may pose issues for some current
>applications.  I've seen reports of problems with Muine but haven't had
>time to investigate them.
>
>The port changes made for this release are rather large.  Mono can now
>utilize multiple GAC locations.  Some applications previously had issues
>when not installed into the same prefix as the Mono runtime which would
>cause program execution failures while some .NET assemblies when
>installed elsewhere would cause program compilation failures.  This
>would present a problem for any application using Mono but required to
>install in X11BASE with Gnome.  In turn I've replaced bin/mono with a
>dinky shell script that adds /usr/X11R6 to the know GAC prefix locations
>and moved the mono runtime binary to bin/mono-bin.  I've also moved gtk-
>sharp to its rightful spot in X11BASE.  So far I can compile and run
>GTK# applications just fine but it is something to be aware of since
>I've had to patch most libraries to install correctly into an alternate
>prefix.  Hopefully I haven't missed anything though I may have.
>
>As always, you can obtain the mono-merge script from the BSD# page at:
>http://forge.novell.com/modules/xfmod/project/?bsd-sharp
>
>For some reason right now Novell Forge won't show the latest scripts so
>you are better off downloading it directly from:
>http://ftp.novell.com/pub/forge/bsd-sharp/mono-merge/MONO_HEAD/mono-
>merge.tar.gz
>
>As for a minor bit of gloating...  All these ports are available before
>Ximian has even announced their official release.  That's right, you as
>a FreeBSD user have the latest Mono packages available first!
>
>In closing, let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks.
>
>Tom
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