On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 01:34:37PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > A victim of "release early, release often"? :-) >
Yes, definitely. One of these days I'll switch back to stable, just haven't been willing to bite that bullet quite yet. At least it's helped me temper my obsessive tendencies a bit -- I only update on Saturday now. :) > It's the price we pay on Gentoo with rolling upgrades - ebuilds for older > versions get swept clean so unless you are prepared to maintain code yourself > you need to rebuild often. x86 is better, but still not free of it. > > Binary distros can shield their user from all that (while exposing them to a > different set of equally annoying problems...) > I find binary distros really tough to love. Probably a lot of gentoo users do... > I don't see a real problem with Qt/Nokia/MS though. I predict a lot of > platitudes from that soul-less monstrosity but no real progress. Meanwhile, > KDE can fork Qt anytime they feel like it (if they haven't already). > Maintenance won't be hard - Qt is mature with a defined roadmap so we can > skip > the "argue about the design for 12 months first" step as being already done. > I hope they do fork it, and that they succeed. Probably I've come across as harsh and judgemental about kde4/qt, but in fact if they ever can get to the point of being as reliable and stable as kde3 was I'd be very happy to put users on it. Heck, I'd be deliriously happy to have a reliable option besides xfce for them. > I would have like to see Qt running on lots of embedded devides though.. It certainly has a *lot* of potential for embedded. E17 also looks quite interesting, if it ever gets finished. -- caveat utilitor ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤
