Re: Cheese on CentOS 5

["Patryk Zawadzki" <patrys pld-linux org>]

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 6:59 PM, Ed Hurst <br073n gmail com> wrote:
> I wrote a series of articles regarding the hidden costs of refusing to
> support (as in, refusing to "backport") new applications to the more
> stable distros. While I targeted the term "rolling release" it's more
> about a fundamental philosophy about development which guarantees Linux
> and Open Source will never be adopted by the masses.

IMHO you are targetting the wrong list by posting here. Cheese is part
of GNOME and relies on nothing outside of GNOME so what could we do to
support more distros? We follow GNOME releases and any distro is free
to bump their GNOME version to get the most up to date release of
Cheese. While there may be some technical problems with doing so, you
should talk to the maintainers of problematic modules in question.
Cheese can't just decide to target GNOME 1.x for example as we are
bound by the current release cycle.

Should you find a bug or a place where compatibility can be improved
in Cheese code, feel free to provide a patch and one of us will gladly
review it. If not, report a bug using GNOME's bugzilla. The only case
I can think of where you will hear a "no" is when such compatibility
requires introducing a lot of new code to maintain (as it would be
hard for us to test it before making a new release).

-- 
Patryk Zawadzki