[Bug 436] Review request: moonlight - Moonlight is an open source implementation of Microsoft Silverlight for Unix systems

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

http://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=436





--- Comment #61 from Richard <hobbes1069 at gmail.com>  2011-10-01 14:01:57 ---
Here's the response I got from the mono mailing list:

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 14:35 -0500, Richard Shaw wrote:
> I'm trying to package moonlight for possible inclusion at RPM Fusion
> but I'm having some issues.
>
> 1. pkg-config problem:
>
> I'm currently working on version 2.4.1 moonlight since it's the latest
> stable. It apparently is supposed to work with mono 2.6 but 2.10 is
> what F15 has, hopefully 2.6 is only a minimum.

Sadly it's not a minimum, or even a guideline - it requires the exact
expected version from its own altered 2.6 branch (based on 2.6.1, I
think). The class library build works by doing a full build of the
regular 2.6 class tree, then binary-patching the output to create
Silverlight versions of libraries from the 2.0 versions.

You'll need to bundle the appropriate 2.6 release, and mangle the build
process to handle it.

http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-mono/packages/moon.git;a=blob;f=debian/rules;h=ad433e0bd36d371c070d79bdf992830aecddecaa;hb=HEAD
is the makefile used to build the package on Ubuntu - although I've deleted the
package since it doesn't support recent Firefox, and seems to be dead upstream.
---

I don't know it's practical to keep a matched pair of moonlight & mono around,
plus that sounds a lot like static linking of libraries. What a mess.

If we want to move forward it sounds like we'll need to add the appropriate
mono sources to this (source) package and I'm not sure RPM Fusion will allow
that...

Richard


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