Fedora meeting Mono Half-Way

[John Morris]

On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 07:00, dragoran wrote:
> Benjy Grogan wrote:
> 
> > Hello:
> >
> > I know this topic has been mentioned over and over, and everyone is 
> > irritated by it.  But why not meet the Mono project half-way?  Why 
> > can't the hal-sharp and the dbus-sharp, and gtk-sharp add-ons be 
> > included in the fedora packages?
> 
> or atleast let us build them with a spec file flag.

Sounds like a reasonable compromise.  However I really can't see why
anyone involved in Fedora would want to expend the effort to do it
initally or maintain it.

But if somebody volunteered the patches it does sound reasonable to
expect them to get included.  For no matter how much we understand the
trap mono represents, it is equally obvious that many people are already
leaping into it and mono support WILL happen for certain packages.  That
means the only question is how much pain will be caused by having the
bordering packages forked into the outside repos with the actual mono
packages?

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