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Re: [Mono-dev] Mono 2.4 Preview Packages for Debian/Unstable



On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Mirco Bauer <meebey@debian.org> wrote:
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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