Quoting Alan
Or you could simply get in touch with the team, as you've just done. There's no need to start suggesting such drastic measures in the very first email people get.
Alan, thank you for your message... it's motivating to see somebody being 'alive' when it comes to mono.
I no longer use opensuse so I would not be the right person for the job. However if there is a maintainer I will give them whatever help/advice they need to fix issues they encounter. Secondly, what are the issues you've been encountering? As far as I am aware, we (Xamarin) still build RPMs for openSUSE and also maintain the spec files. Everything should Just Work (TM) for mono itself, if it does not it is definitely something we will want to fix. If you can point me towards cases where mono itself cannot be compiled in full I will do my best to get it sorted within the next week.
Your description seems to match around all of the addresses of that mail: nobody cares for / uses openSUSE of the mono crew. As such, the few packages depending on mono are questionable to be worthy top be maintained. Mono itself works... it was even upgraded to Mono 3.0.x.. which, in fact, causes a bunch of 'hidden' problems. Seems nobody noted that half of the packages were build against sdk 4, while the other half wa built for sdk 2... needless to say: apps don't like that... and most refused to start. This was until about a week ago where this thread started and I fixed countless packages (to at least start.. no Idea if the apps work). Some were simply dropped by now, like mono-tools: the latest release is still 2.10.x, which does not build.. not even the git master branch builds with mono 3.. so obviously, a useless 'tool set'
If you are having issues with third party applications (anything based on mono, but not mono itself) I'm not sure who'd be the best one to maintain that. Probably not Xamarin.
Most of those 3rd parties had simple fixes, by specifying -sdk:4 as parameter to gmcs... the only 'bug' I can note, as such, is that the man page of gmcs says sdk:4 is the default... obviously not, if specifying it fixes the issues. Best regards, Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org