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by forgotAgain 4718 days ago
Is Xamarin moving away from the base mono-project? I mean it as an honest question, not a troll. The 3.2 release seems mostly aimed at mobile development and cutting off support for previous major versions (2.10 and 3.0). Further, there was never an official stable release of 3.0.

It's their choice if they want to and they've done great service for the community with what they've already done. But if they've changed directions I think they should come out and say it so current and potential future users of the platform know.
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jstedfast 4717 days ago
Mono 3.2 isn't mobile specific. Sure, mobile has become a very important part of the focus, but a huge portion of the development is useful beyond mobile.
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giulianob 4718 days ago
Mono 3.0 stable has been out for a while. There just wasn't many binaries for it so you have to compile it yourself mostly.
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forgotAgain 4718 days ago
Their download page indicates that 2.10 is the last stable version.

http://www.go-mono.com/mono-downloads/download.html

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yapcguy 4717 days ago
This is one of the reasons why I have a bad feeling about Mono (see my other comment).

In another HN discussion, a person from Xamarin said they didn't have the resources to keep Linux package management up-to-date.

However, they scored $16 million in funding this month, so going forward they certainly do have the resources.

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