I was interested to note some criticisms coming from the
e camp regarding the percieved tardiness of RedHat in
updating packages.
What moves are being made to get e up to date?
Will E continue as part of the packages?
I have included the piece from
http://www.enlightenment.org/news.html
Kevin
Latest News
Tue Feb 22 2000
RedHat 6.2beta - can't they keep up to
date???
It seems as though Red Hat are a litle slow on the
ball with 6.2... they seemingly
haven't ben able to follow either slashdot, mailing
lists, FTP sites or Release notes
and manage to get 0.16.x of enlightenmnt onto RH 6.2
- they also include Imlib
1.9.7 - which has a serious GC leak in the Xlib API
end - that was fixed in 1.9.8 -
that was also released long long long ago. They've
easily had time to use the latest -
especially since it imporves performance over E
0.15.5 by a lot, as well as stability
and usability. Also Imlib1.9.8 fixes a serious bug.
Funnily Stormix, SUSE and Mandrake all who do
include E on their distributions,
were able to get 0.16.x on there on their
distributions that were released as
products long ago now. I'm dissapointed in Red Hat
in their lack of ability to keep
up-to-date with software releases. Either remove the
package completely from the
distribution or update - because it's not good form
to keep shipping an old, buggy
and slow package that means us developers keep
getting mail about it when we
fixed a lot of that in a newer release.
I have a feeling my prediction I made 9 months ago
might well come true... well so
be it.
--
To unsubscribe:
mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
