Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 (phoronix.com) 2
Today marks the release of Framework Mono 6.14, the first major Mono release in five years and the first under WineHQ's stewardship. This update includes long-awaited improvements such as native macOS ARM64 support, enhancements to System.Windows.Forms for X11, better COM interface support, and various stability fixes. Phoronix reports: In addition to the native macOS ARM64 support and System.Windows.Forms improvements for X11, some of the other Mono 6.14 improvements carried out over the past half-decade include improved support for generated COM interfaces, many warning fixes, addressing common cases where processes would hang on exit, and more.
As for the "Framework Mono" name rather than just Mono, the release announcement explains: "Framework Mono is the project previously hosted at https://github.com/mono/mono, which was then simply called Mono. I have made this change to distinguish it from 'monovm' and 'Wine Mono', which are different projects. Framework Mono is a cross-platform runtime compatible with .NET Framework." You can download and learn more about the release here.
As for the "Framework Mono" name rather than just Mono, the release announcement explains: "Framework Mono is the project previously hosted at https://github.com/mono/mono, which was then simply called Mono. I have made this change to distinguish it from 'monovm' and 'Wine Mono', which are different projects. Framework Mono is a cross-platform runtime compatible with .NET Framework." You can download and learn more about the release here.
Why (Score:2)
OK, OK, yeah, yeah and yeah, but why this instead of OpenJDK apart from, say, the renegade Klingon or is he a Khan wannabe?
DOES NOT BUILD - this is crap (Score:1)
Yeah they announce. Announce a failure. Seriously this is just crap.
it doesn't build.
The Readme.md is lacking any useful instructions.
The ./configure takes over an hour on a 16-core kickass laptop.
make has errors. Like the kind any programmer woulc have fixed in 5 seconds but couldn't be bothered to.
sudo make install fails.
This is crap.