Why are Mono apps fragile?

[Nadeem Bitar]

Thanks for the tip, tomboy is working again. F-spot is still broken though. 
Regarding mono, it's not only a debian problem. It's much worse in
fedora.  I think the support is quite good since that's the only
non-source distro that I was able to install muine, f-pot, tomboy,
beagle and dashboard on.  I only wish that upgrades would stop
breaking working apps.

Nadeem

On Sun, 09 Jan 2005 22:33:24 -0800, Niran Babalola <niran at stanford.edu> wrote:
> Downgrade libgtk-cil to 1.0.2 and you'll have your notes back. If you
> want to keep it locked there (that's what I did), click on the package
> in Synaptic, and go to Package -> Lock Version. There are a lot of
> promising Mono apps out there, so it's a shame that Debian's Mono
> support is so bad in general. I know it's not really anyone's fault
> since Mono is under heavy development, but growing pains are still
> painful. Having to install aliened RPMs just to build the latest version
> of Muine isn't fun and feels a little dirty.
> 
> - Niran
> 
> > I am starting to be concerned about the fragility of mono based apps.
> > More and more I am relying on apps that are mono-based but these apps
> > break quite often.
> > For example i can't access my notes because an update broke tomboy, I
> > can't seem to figure which mono library exactly broke it.  Similarly
> > f-spot has been broken on my machine for some time now.
> > It's a shame that these great apps are written in mono.
> 
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