On Fri, 2003-04-04 at 07:25, Colburn wrote: > Isn't Ximian Evolution a *very* commonly used app?
Evolution, yes. Connector, no. > Are you saying that it is unreasonable to expect RH to test to see if > their latest OS release actually *worked* with commonly used apps? Nope. > Are you saying that it's unreasonable to expect RH to provide a minimal > level of backward compatibility (say perhaps even only *one* level of > prior release)? There is a minimal level of backward compatibility. You are obviously referring to an app that didn't fall within that minumum. > No one asked for them to rewrite another company's app but the least > they could do is to flag incompatibilities *created* by *their* changes > so the customer may make an *informed* decision to upgrade or not. Anyway, RH did not "rewrite" Evolution. They may have applied a couple of patches. The may have recompiled it to run on RH 9 and take advantage of the new threading code. Besides Ximian Evolution is open source, Ximian Connector is not. RH did take the time to make sure that commonly used *open source* applications worked on 9. The did not do the same for proprietary applications. To expect them to do so isn't reasonable. > Since my office threw Linux out for these reasons I don't face these > kinds of embarrassing situations any more. It seems a little more > sympathy for those who do is in order. Let me guess, they threw it out in favor of Windows 2000 which isn't able to run a lot of older apps either. Makes sense. > My RH9 arrives soon. Wonder what else they broke that they *forgot* to > mention? If you're concerned about this, then wait to do the upgrade. That seems to be the common wisdom and seems reasonable to me. What features of 9 do you *require* right now that makes the upgrade necessary? I'll upgrade at home but you won't hear me bitching if something doesn't work. At work I'll probably stay on 8 for a while longer until third party apps get upgraded to work on 9. > Sigh ... doc "Sigh" indeed. -- Cliff Wells, Software Engineer Logiplex Corporation (www.logiplex.net) (503) 978-6726 x308 (800) 735-0555 x308 -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
