Hi everyone,
Hi
Upgraded my Ubuntu (latest release) machine and it's working great. It fixed an ugly bug in the old 2.0 release that is still in Ubuntu.
I tested Nemo and everything is working great. Thanks a lot for keeping the packages updated!
yes here they are, the Debian packages for lovely Mono 2.4!
Here the Debian NEWS teaser of Mono 2.4:
mono (2.4-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Mono 2.4 ships a lot of goodies:
+ SIMD support in Mono.
+ No expensive polls in the threading implementation any longer.
+ Speed-up garbarge collection on multi-core systems.
+ Optimized XPath (using 15% less memory).
+ Faster DateTime.TryParse implementation (by not using try/catch).
+ Support for precompiled ASP.NET pages.
* Complete Announcement of Mono 2.4 (vs Mono 2.2):
http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.4
* Mono 2.2 also ships with lovely things:
+ The tree-based code generation engine in the JIT was replaced
with the
Linear IL engine, which allows better optimizations.
+ Generic sharing is now used in all cases (reduces memory usage).
+ Generic sharing is now supported on ARM.
+ Support of full Ahead of Time Compilation.
+ New PerformanceCounters implementation that allows to monitor the
runtime internals. Including the GUI tool "mperfmon" to view them.
+ Interactive shell called "csharp" that allows to execute C#
expressions inside a shell. There is also a GUI version available
called "gsharp".
+ Live Inspection. You can attach using the csharp shell to a
running process and run code inside to debug things.
+ The C# compiler will now optimize empty strings ("") away with
String.Empty (which reduces memory usage).
+ The Regular Expressions engine has been rewritten being more
efficient.
At the same time compiled regex are also supported now.
+ ASP.NET supports now new routing handlers needed by ASP.NET MVC.
+ In the WinForms implementation were almost 200 bugs fixed (since
Mono 2.0)
* Complete Announcement of Mono 2.2 (vs Mono 2.0):
http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.2
* Mono 2.0 shipped with:
+ A console debugger (mdb) part of the mono-debugger package.
+ WinForms 2.0 API is complete.
+ WinForms's WebBrowser was implemented using Mozilla's Gecko HTML
rendering engine.
+ WinForms now supports international keyboard input through XIM.
+ Performance of locking (used by threading) was significally
improved.
+ New debug parameter "--debug=cast" which print outs the types
in forInvalidCastException.
+ The C# compiler supports now _expression_ trees (for LINQ) which
completes the C# 3.0 support.
+ The C# compiler is now dual-licensed under MIT/X11 and GPLv2
(only).
+ LINQ and LINQ to XML are now complete.
+ Big Arrays for 64bit architectures are now support (but have to be
compiled using the --enable-big-arrays configure switch)
* Complete Announcement of Mono 2.0:
http://www.mono-project.com/Release_Notes_Mono_2.0
-- Mirco Bauer <meebey@debian.org> Fri, 10 Apr 2009 00:58:39 +0200
Here the APT repository (x86 only) for the packages:
deb http://debian.meebey.net/pkg-mono/mono /
The release schedule goes like this:
- upload to debian.meebesy.net (completed)
- once I received some positive feedback I will push the packages as -1
to Debian/Experimental.
- once the packages passed the NEW queue I will upload them to
Debian/Unstable.
- sync with Ubuntu/Karmic
Happy Mono 2.4ing!
--
Regards,
Mirco 'meebey' Bauer
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