Re: mono?

[Andreas Wüst <andreas.wuest@swissonline.ch>]

Hi

On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 01:31, Edd Dumbill wrote:

> On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 21:53, Lee Braiden wrote:
> > Anyone know what the status is of mono on debian/ppc?  I've tried installing 
> > the 0.16 debs available at debianplanet.org/mono, but they fail with serious 
> > problems (like missing packages :))
> > 
> > They didn't seem to compile from source either, but I might have missed 
> > something there, being new to mono, etc :)
> 
> Basically, until the JITter is ported to powerpc you're in a for a lot 
> of pain.  I have successfully in the past compiled mint (the non JIT
> interpreter) for powerpc but it is slow and crashy.

Which version did you try? I have used 0.23 and 0.24 quite a lot
(without the garbage collector though), and have NEVER experienced any
crash of mint.

And now they're already at version 0.26, so I think it's very worth to
give it a try! The only thing which isn't that nice is debugging, since
mcs, the compiler, sometimes does not give very precise info on where it
failed to compile ("error in block between line 12 and 26)", or just
quits and gives no output at all..

And mint worked at reasonable speed for me.. (ok, I didn't do that heavy
stuff). Only multithreading wasn't that fast, mint needed a good amount
of time to set up the individual threads.

I would recommend to download the source packages from
http://www.debianplanet.org/mono/ and compiled them, or
http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/mono/ sports 0.23 for woody and 0.24
for sid. Or just go to http://go-mono.org download and compile the
package for yourself.

-- 
Best wishes,
Andi