On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 19:40 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote: > hi jeff, > > Am Montag, den 12.12.2005, 02:53 +0900 schrieb Jeff Co: > > I heard that a new version of Evolution is coming out this Monday, > > December 12. > > yes, it will be the experimental version 2.5.3. > > > It will be a developer/unstable version. I hear that this version will > > clear up a lot of bugs from the current version. > > who says that? and who says that there won't be more new bugs introduced > than old ones fixed? ;-) > > > How do I upgrade to this upcoming version? > > I'm a Ubuntu breezy user. If you can help, please provide step-by-step > > instuctions, easy enough for a newbie to understand. > > ubuntu packages are only provided by the distribution maintainers > themselves, but not by the gnome or evolution folks. i guess you need to > switch to ubuntu dapper and ask them to check out evolution 2.5.3. > of course you can also (and always) compile from source, but i don't > think that this is an easy way for a newbie - it also took me quite some > time before i succeeded in compiling non-trivial applications on my own. > > don't get me wrong, i don't want to say "do not use 2.5.3", i just want > to stress that unstable versions are experimental. nearly everything can > happen, you can lose data or have new crashes or freezes where you would > have never expected them before. one should really reflect on if it's > worth to use an unstable version instead of a stable version. > > the stable versions also do fix a lot of bugs. to which bugs exactly do > you refer to? what is it that makes you unhappy? :-) > > cheers, > andre >
so how will Fedora Core 4 users upgrade? there are some odd bugs going on. for instance - pilot syncing STINKS! i can get my clie pegsj30 to sync with kpilot but not with evolution. will i be able to update with yum? thank you. > _______________________________________________ > Evolution-list mailing list > Evolution-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list -- \||/ jack wallen, jr 00 www.monkeypantz.net > - _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
