Mono

Status

Introduction

Mono is a platform for running and developing modern applications that target the running of applications written in .NET.

Mono official site: http://www.mono-project.com/ If you have questions, check out this Mono Forum hosted by Nabble. It currently archives all the Mono mailing lists into a forum for cross browsing and search.

Rationale

Some parts of the desktop now require Mono:

  • Choosing the platform of applications
  • Including popular productivity boosting applications like Tomboy, F-Spot

Scope and Use Cases

  • Beagle is wanted in the desktop seed for searching documents.

  • Tomboy & F-Spot are both popular desktop applications.

  • Mono can be used for web services applications on servers.

Implementation Plan

  • Build Mono 1.1, get it into main after a brief bootstrapping in universe

    • Mono needs to be uploaded first without a Build-Depend on cli-common, then uploaded again with a fix to debian/rules in order to get correct dependencies & control files.

  • Bindings will have to be moved to main also for applications.

  • Mono & applications need to be migrated from using /usr/share/dotnet to the FHS-compliant /usr/lib/mono

  • For beagle, user_xattr needs to be turned on for home directory by default, and inotify may need to be enabled. user_xattr will need to be turned on in existing installs also. This change is planned for the breezy installer and will be placed in the upgrade notes and NEWS.Debian for beagle.

Data Preservation and Migration

  • Packages are compatible with the old /usr/share/dotnet location, with a clean upgrade path.

Packages Affected

All packages listed will move into main. Core:

  • mono

  • To fix for FHS-compliance
    • Applications
      • f-spot
      • muine
      • blam
    • Bindings
      • libdbus-cil (duplicate source needs removal to move to main)

  • Already FHS-compliant
    • Applications
      • tomboy
      • beagle
      • monodoc
    • Bindings
      • gtk-sharp2
      • gtk-sharp1
      • gecko-sharp1
      • gecko-sharp2
      • gtksourceview-sharp1
      • gtksourceview-sharp2

User Interface Requirements

  • Need to decide if beagled needs to run in the session, and if BEST will run all the time

Outstanding Issues

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