Current wine-mono with older releases

[Gerald Pfeifer]

Historically, for the FreeBSD ports of Wine and the Mono engine we have 
frozen the latter at the time of a new release of Wine and used another 
instance (usually newer at one point) for Wine' development snapshot.

Is this actually necessary?

Or could we just carry one Mono engine, at the latest and greatest 
version, and use that both for the last Wine release (11.0 right now)
and Wine development snapshots (11.3 right now)?

Is there a general answer, or is it "it depends"?

Thanks,
Gerald

[Esme Povirk]

No. You would need at least two installable versions of the package: a 
stable release containing Wine Mono 10.4.1 (used by Wine 11.0) and a 
development release containing Wine Mono 11.0.0 (used by Wine 11.3). And 
since the versions may at some points be the same (meaning they need to 
install the same files), you would probably run into problems if they 
can both be installed at once.

On 2026-02-21 14:06, Gerald Pfeifer via Wine-devel wrote:
> Historically, for the FreeBSD ports of Wine and the Mono engine we have
> frozen the latter at the time of a new release of Wine and used another
> instance (usually newer at one point) for Wine' development snapshot.
>
> Is this actually necessary?
>
> Or could we just carry one Mono engine, at the latest and greatest
> version, and use that both for the last Wine release (11.0 right now)
> and Wine development snapshots (11.3 right now)?
>
> Is there a general answer, or is it "it depends"?
>
> Thanks,
> Gerald