[m-dev.] promoted ROTDs

[Julien Fischer]

On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Julien Fischer wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Jul 2018, Peter Wang wrote:
>
>>  Continuing on from
>>  https://github.com/Mercury-Language/mercury/issues/38#issuecomment-405848166
>>
>>  The master branch seems to be in a good state right now (as it usually
>>  is), and the start of a month is as good a time as any, so:
>
> No objection from me.
>
>>  Next week, can we start promoting a recent ROTD as a version of choice
>>  for users who can't or don't want to use the "Stable" release, but are
>>  wary of simply picking the latest ROTD in case they happen to hit a
>>  recently-introduced bug (however rare they may be)?
>>
>>  A "preferred ROTD" should also be a useful target for packagers who need
>>  some guidance as to the version to package.
>>
>>  Is there anything known to be wrong with rotd-2018-07-23?

And one further issue; standard library compilation will currently break
in the C# grade on non-Windows platforms with recent versions of Mono
because the Roslyn C# compiler (e.g. csc) only supports signing
assemblies with a strong name on Windows.

(One workaround is to force the use of mcs as the C# compiler
instead of csc.)

Julien.