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What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Wed 21 Jun 2023 6:32 pm
by f4phlyer
Last Friday (6-16/23) while troubleshooting an issue about CMX 3245 I was trying to install the latest version of Mono from the "Mono-project" site where there used to be link specific to Raspian there no longer is anything for linux except 'Ubuntu'. Current link https://www.mono-project.com/download/s ... wnload-lin

Just wondering what others are seeing and if so what am I missing. :bash:

Re: What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Thu 22 Jun 2023 5:53 am
by HansR
f4phlyer wrote: Wed 21 Jun 2023 6:32 pm Last Friday (6-16/23) while troubleshooting an issue about CMX 3245 I was trying to install the latest version of Mono from the "Mono-project" site where there used to be link specific to Raspian there no longer is anything for linux except 'Ubuntu'. Current link https://www.mono-project.com/download/s ... wnload-lin

Just wondering what others are seeing and if so what am I missing. :bash:
Yes, I see the same and it surprises me as well and I have no idea.
Maybe they are preparing the new version, look again in a week or so :?:

Re: What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Mon 26 Jun 2023 7:19 pm
by f4phlyer
Update on Mono, nothing official. Looking around the Mono-project website especially the resource folders Raspian Bullseye seems to have disappeared.

Then today Jeff Geerling posted a rant about "RedHat" pulling Centos, essentially pulling the rug out from "open source" software. I might say that we all know what IBM did when they bought "WunderGround" weather, the had to monetize the acquisition and it would seem that they are doing the same thing with RedHat.

Anyone understand any of this enough to make a brief post?

Re: What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Mon 26 Jun 2023 10:03 pm
by Mapantz

Re: What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 1:58 am
by jlmr731
Redhat has been making many changes over the years and I thought they stopped centos a few years ago or something, I thinks its all about the money for them. Now the different distros do maintain their version of mono in their repositories, may not be the latest version but at least they should be stable, and unless some sweeping change is made to CMX one would not need the latest version. The best part is Mark uses raspi so whatever he does in changes he will make sure it works.
A look at the github page i see they are having some build problems with debian so maybe this is why they have no link to build,

Re: What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 2:20 am
by HansR
Not sure what RHEL has to do with mono and Raspbian OS, Debian or Ubuntu (the distro's mainly used here). And besides, mono I think is maintained by Microsoft.

Re: What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 8:52 am
by uncle_bob
May have upgraded to Stereo :lol: Sorry, couldn't help myself.

Re: What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 7:38 pm
by f4phlyer
Thanks all. It's beginning to make a little more sense.

Just checked the 'Mono-project' website and the link for Debian and Raspian has returned. However, if I read it correctly still no 64 bit Bullseye support.

Re: What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Tue 27 Jun 2023 8:44 pm
by SamiS
On the github page there still seems to be some problems with debian (attached). It also seems that they indeed pushed out a new release (6.12.0.199).

Edit. I think I have misunderstood what the github front page’s compile status means, so attachment removed.

Re: What's happened to "Mono"?

Posted: Wed 28 Jun 2023 3:12 pm
by philpugh
f4phlyer wrote: Tue 27 Jun 2023 7:38 pm
Just checked the 'Mono-project' website and the link for Debian and Raspian has returned. However, if I read it correctly still no 64 bit Bullseye support.
Yes it's back but it's not possible to 'upgrade' to later 64bit version than that in the raspian bullseye repository