[Pkg-mono-devel] Re: Mono Debian Packaging

[Mirco 'meebey' Bauer]

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On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 16:22, Paolo Molaro wrote:
> *) the description for mono-jist says it's a code interpreter: this is
> misleading, it's a just in time compiler.
I took already care of this (it is only fixed in SVN though, next build
will contain the fixes)

> *) it also says it's for x86 only, but it works also on powerpc (not yet
> fully, but it's getting there): so it should have Architecture: i386 powe=
rpc
powerpc can be added when its expected to work, is it really that far?

> *) the mono-utils description says it contains monodis (two times).
> AFAICS it's missing pedump. Please, don't install monosn: we'll remove
just fixed (by Zomb?)

> that upstream, too.
> *) copyright in mcs only mentions the GPL, though the assemblies are
> almost all under the MIT license (see the README and LICENSE files in
> mcs/).
I am working on this one, the copyrights/licenses are not so clear in
MONO, I found some code from Intel etc...

> *) later, I'd like for debian to have a package with just the base
> assemblies (mscorlib, System, System.Xml) and one (or more) separate
> packages for the rest of the assemblies.
at the moment the mono-assemblies-base has all arch independent
assemblies, and mono-assemblies-arch for the other, mono-assemblies-* is
still open for others things.. not sure yet how we do this.

> *) I'm not sure that the cli-runtime virtual package is for, especially
> when mono-assemblies-arch provides it.
> *) the description for mono-mcs only lists the C# compiler, while the
> package contains also a number of other CLR develpment utilities.
hhmm have to fix this

thx though for your ideas/suggestions/points!

Mirco Bauer aka meebey


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