Sabrina Kilian wrote:
> Darren New wrote:
>> Darren New wrote:
>>> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>>>> and it fails because it does exactly that?
>>>
>>> No. It succeeds if it does exactly that. I didn't say "fail" 
>>> anywhere. If you're referring to the blog post calling it a "fail", 
>>> well, I think you've missed his point.
>>>
>>>> could. Maybe he should really be complaining about how these 'long 
>>>> use, stable libraries' keep having updates. Why won't those 
>>>> developers just leave it alone!
>>
>> (I hate RDP not always catching the key-up. :-)
>>
>> Yes, I suspect the "long use stable libraries" shouldn't be adding 
>> important features. If you have features in 2.10 that you can't 
>> possibly get away without using, then I wouldn't call 2.6 the "long 
>> use stable libraries."  But that's just terminology.
>>
> 
> It's not features that the GTK people can't get away without using, it's 
> features that Mozilla wants to use. This complaint is not that much 
> different, on the surface, then someone who wants to install a DX 9 game 
> on a Windows computer with DX8...you mean, I bought the game, but I have 
> to install something else too? 

Sure. But DX9 ships with the game. :-)

> I don't think, and I could be wrong here 
> cause I don't follow GTK, that GTK has ever released a 'long term 
> support' version of their library.

Dunno. I wasn't the one that first said "long use stable libraries."

It's also kind of odd that he'd be talking about putting Firefox 3 on 
"production machines" without upgrading stuff. Maybe it's just me, but 
either your system is working (in which case, why upgrade the UI 
component) or you have someone's random desktop machine they're using to 
surf random sites with (in which case why gripe that the package manager 
downloaded a bunch of packages?).  I mean, lots of businesses (banks, 
other customer service places, etc) use web browsers to get into their 
systems, but why would you want to put firefox3 on such a box?

> All I read in the blog post was "I want to use a older distro that the 
> package manager maintenance  crew probably aren't supporting anymore,

Yeah. Good thing agreeing with the guy wasn't my point in giving the 
example. :-)

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Darren New / San Diego, CA, USA (PST)

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