Mono 2.6.7 parallel environment debian/ubuntu package

Last evening I packaged a parallel environment of the new Mono 2.6.7 release, which was published on July 19th.
In this release the mono team fixed around 70 bug fixes. Other highlights are:

• Asp.Net Mvc2 is included
• Latest Version of
  • Soft-Debugger
  • Mono’s xBuild Tool
  • Linq to SQL Binding

Parallel-Environments are really great, as you can use two or more completely separate and  independent Mono stacks running at the same time, for development purposes or even for running unstable applications without compromising existing installed stable versions.
We mainly use it for development purposes of our .NET related projects, as it often takes a long time till the newest version is in the ubuntu repositories and I like to hack on the most recent base.

The parallel environment includes the following dependencies:

• Mono 2.6.7
• libgdiplus 2.6.7
• xsp-2.6.7
• mod_mono 2.6.3
• mono-tools 2.6.2
• gecko-sharp 2.0-0.13
• gtk-sharp 2.12.10
• gnome-sharp 2.24.1
• gnome-desktop-sharp 2.24.0
• mono-addins 0.5

Once downloaded the package installs to “/opt/mono-2.6″.

You can activate the environment by typing the following command in your terminal:

droth@ubuntu04:/var/dev/mono$ source mono-2.6-environment
Toward this step your terminal looks like this:
[mono] /var/dev/mono @

If you now enter “mono –version” the console should print the following lines:

Mono JIT compiler version 2.6.7 (tarball Thu Jul 29 21:42:44 CEST 2010)
Copyright (C) 2002-2010 Novell, Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS:           __thread
GC:            Included Boehm (with typed GC and Parallel Mark)
SIGSEGV:       altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture:  x86
Disabled:      none

Now you can build and run all your mono related stuff (e.x. build and run monodevelop from trunk) on the latest 2.6.7 version.

You can download the package directly via my ubuntu one link:

Download mono-2-6-7-parallel-environment.deb

I’m running the parallel environment on my Ubuntu 10.4 but I haven’t tested it on older ubuntu versions.
It is obvious that I can not give ANY warranty for the package.

Happy mono hacking!

dfMVC2 is now included
Latest versions of:
* Soft Debugger
* Mono's xbuild tool
* LINQ to SQL binding

Chive 0.3 released

It has been quite a while since Chive 0.2.0 has been released and with over 3,000 downloads we have taken a big leap to become the next generation web-based MySQL database management tool. With the release of Chive 0.3.0 we take another step towards this goal.

About 20 bugfixes and a bunch of important improvements later, we release Chive 0.3.0 on April 1st 2010. For a list of fixed bugs see the Launchpad project page (https://launchpad.net/chive). These are the most important improvements:

mod_rewrite
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To run Chive 0.2.0 you had to have mod_rewrite enabled in your Apache installation. This is no longer required! Once you connect to Chive, it automatically detects wether mod_rewrite is enabled or not and chooses the right mode for your system setup.

Handling of blob values
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Downloading of blob values should work with every supported browser from now. But there are still some issues with blob values in tables without primary key.

Import
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The import script has been recoded and should work with larger dump files from now. Errors while executing an import sql file will not stop the import. In exchange all errors are shown as a list below the progress bar.

Translations
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With 6 new translations we are looking forward to reach a broader user audience. Thanks to all people working on the translations in Launchpad:
- Brazilian Portuguese (Patrick Kaminski)
- French (Jonathan, Olivier, David Soyez, lbstephane)
- German (Patrick Scheips, Sven Leichsenring)
- Italian (Gho5t, Giacomo Mirabassi, Giampaolo Bozzali, ciko, d3vilkiss, ramin)
- Polish (Jacek Kowalski, Konrad Kałowski, MiSHu, czepol)
- Spanish (Diegoj, Kaos32Black)

New library versions
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As every version of Chive, 0.3.0 ships with the latest versions for Yii Framework, jQuery, jQuery UI and all the other libraries to improve performance and security.

We hope that you will enjoy using Chive 0.3.0 and we are looking forward to receive your feedback in Launchpad (https://launchpad.net/chive).

Chive 0.2.0 released

Chive 0.2.0 has just been released. This version of the new MySQL database administration tool is ready for use in production and aims to be a replacement for phpMyAdmin.

Read the announcement on Launchpad