On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 14:52 +0200, Peter von Kaehne wrote: > > Von: "Alberto Ruiz" <ar...@redhat.com> > > In the meantime, even if less than ideal, we have to cope with the fact > > that it's distros who distribute Evolution. > That actually _is_ the ideal way. > Someone writes a nice programme. Someone else packages it for their > distribution A and again somebody else for distribution B. > Instead of running around the internet and chasing multiple download > pages you do a simple central update with the for your distribution > typical tools to get a new version.
+1 +1 +1. I cannot imagine any reason at all someone would want to 'go back' to the old way of download-and-install, uh oh, it is broken, it needs that other... There simply is no problem here to solve. > Occasionally a distribution will hang behind, Yes, that is to be expected. It is a problem when they hang WAY WAY behind, or when they do not provide an avenue for user's who desire more current [at greater risk] versions. But all the mainstream ones do... so no problem, again. > occasionally a distribution will > ignore a new release and very occasionally a distribution will make a > conscious > choice of not implementing an update. A user can then either choose to > live with these facts, change distribution or (if they are technically > able) create their own updated version from sources. I'd disagree, a *user* cannot "create their own updated version from sources". A user does not build software; developers do. If you are compiling stuff - you are a developer, albeit possibly a very bad one. > My current main laptop has 2500 programme packages installed. I would > think this is fairly norm. For the vast majority (2498 packages to be > exact) I am not in the slightest interested to have the most bang up > to date version. For the two remaining ones - I am a contributing > developer, so I compile them from source. ... so you are a developer. The constant swapping of contexts between user and developer is in part what makes this thread senseless. It is moving the mileposts while measuring. If you build software you are a developer; do not confuse yourself with a user [who has neither the interest nor skills to do such a thing]. For a non-trivial application such as Evolution a non-trivial skill set is required to build. > Unless you produce something very special or something in closed > source, you would be a fool to replicate half heartedly and half > arsedly the often considerably well thought through infrastructure of > a major distribution. Yep. > And unless you are desperately waiting for a brand new feature/bug fix > from a specific package there is no reason whatsoever not to wait for your > own distribution to update itself. Which it will do at some point. > Painlessly and unnoticably, usually. Yep. -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
