Subject: Re: Ximian.com and Abiword
From: Sam TH (sam@uchicago.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 25 2001 - 20:50:36 CDT
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 06:38:01PM -0700, Paul Rohr wrote:
> At 04:05 PM 4/25/01 +0500, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> > Unfortunately Ximian is shipping AW-0.7.13 with some patches added
> instead of
> >0.7.14 (and obsolete gnome-print and Nautilus BTW). They are simply
> monkeys :)
>
> Yeah, distributors *do* tend to lag in the product versions they ship. It's
> the nature of the game, and one of the reasons that people will always have
> a reason to come to us for the latest and greatest. :-)
>
> However, the obvious question comes to mind -- do any of those patches need
> to be fed back upstream to us? I doubt that there's anything as prominent
> as the Miguel/Darin exchange going on over in nautilus-list, but it's worth
> asking.
I periodically go through all the packages I can find and look for
interesting patches. I still have a bunch sitting on my hard drive
from the various BSD's. I'll take a look at the new Ximian and redhat
stuff soon.
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