On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 16:15 +0200, Tom wrote: > ... or better ask them to continuously upgrade to a recent version > even in LTSs !
That's not possible. Evolution is a Gnome application, and relies extensively on the Gnome infrastructure. It's not like Thunderbird or Firefox, for example, or even the kernel, which are essentially stand-alone. Upgrading Evolution would mean you'd have to upgrade all of Gnome in the LTS, which is a complete non-starter (Evo does support one major version of Gnome back, but 14.04 uses Gnome 3.10). I mean, what's the point of using an LTS then? Just get the latest Ubuntu! If you want a so-stable-it's-ossified distro, then use LTS and that's what you get. If you want a nicely stable distro which has fairly up-to-date software, then use a normal Ubuntu release. I personally recommend Ubuntu GNOME actually. I'm really not sure why people are so wedded to LTS for home use: I've been using Ubuntu releases for over 10 years and upgrading regularly and I don't remember ever having anything of consequence broken. I almost always do an in-place upgrade, even, rather than installing from scratch. I do usually wait a few weeks after release, just to let any brown paper bag issues clear out. For corporate use, I guess I can see the benefits of LTS. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
