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Mono Adds Mac OS X Package

Posted by timothy on from the for-your-conversion dept.

Good news for those of you who've went through the pain of trying to get Mono installed on Mac OS X: the team has quietly added a Mac OS X package. If you previously installed to /usr/local, however, be aware that the packaged version installs to /opt/local and adjust any paths accordingly. The Beta-1 Windows installer has also been fixed; download it here.

4 of 53 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Usability? by bay43270 · · Score: 4, Informative

    It's in it's first beta. 1.0 is due at the end of June. Here's the story. And the roadmap

  2. Is .Net on OS X a Good Thing? by mr_tap · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I am sure that others have expressed this view before, but is this necessarily going to be A Good Thing? Isn't this going to lead to developers less likely to have special OS X ports that take advantage of specific OS X features?

    Don't mean to be a whiner of course :)

  3. Re:Explanation of /opt/local and /usr/local by frankie · · Score: 4, Informative
    /usr/local is a commonly used place in many unixish OSes, but Apple likes to think different. This means that whenever you install a Mac upgrade (or even certain updates) there is a possibility that any non-Apple additions to /usr (also /dev, /bin, /var, /etc) will be overwritten by Apple.

    Therefore, the safe-but-annoying choice is to put your 3rd party stuff somewhere else. For example, Fink defaults to the (previously nonexistent) /sw directory. Likewise, /opt does not exist in OSX (unless you install this Mono package)

  4. Finally. . .iFolder by Aiua · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I am excited about this quiet release. First, it opens up the possibility of compiling Novell's OSS iFolder on Mac OS X. Second, 60% of the computers in my company run Mac OS X, allowing for greater compatability between the remaining 40%. Third (and relating to the first), there was a recent evaluation of deploying iFolder company-wide, and the missing Mac OS X support was a critical issue. Now, the chances of the deployment happening have increased with the relase of Mono for Mac OS X. This should be great news for Apple fans.