On 3/26/07, Matthew Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Exceptions to the rule have been made, however, and there is some talk > of whether it would make sense to upgrade the major desktop applications > (Firefox, OpenOffice, and Evolution) at some point before RHEL 6. I'm > in favor of that; it would make my job easier. But nothing official has > been decided.
OK, so the situations are analagous. I guess then, from my perspective (being a reseller/integrator trying to develop linux desktop offerings for customers) I would certainly vote to enable upgrade of "the major desktop applications" within versions. SUSE supports SLED for 5 years. That is a whale of a long time to expect staying at the same version for all of these apps. In fact, it almost seems ridiculous to even contemplate it. I can understand that only a few apps could be consistently upgraded over the life of the distro ... otherwise there would never be a new distro version, just updating the existing one. But at the same time, if customers have elected the stabilitiy of a distro supported for 5 years, that does not mean that they would willingly choose a commitment to outdated desktop applications. Anyway, thanx for clarifying ... it does appear as though this *could* be possible (ie upgrading SLED evo to newest version) but it is not trivial ... I do wish evo was a little less dependant on gnome parts ... Peter _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
