Mono Packaging (was Re: On the subject of sponsors...)

Brian Pepple bpepple at fedoraproject.org
Thu Jun 8 16:21:47 UTC 2006


On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 08:27 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Another open question would be how this affects us:
> http://www.mono-project.com/Assemblies_and_the_GAC#Libraries_with_Unstable_APIs
> 
> It's advocating using .dlls with unstable APIs the same way we normally
> use static libraries (including a local copy with the application).  It
> has all the usual features of a static library scheme but fails to
> mention any security issues.  Should packages entering Fedora be checked
> to make sure they *do not* follow this or are mono .dlls immune to the
> security concerns with normal static libraries?

I agree this is something that should be decided, before we start
getting more mono apps into Extras.

/B
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