Re: [Evolution] open letter to Ximian Evo team: RH 6.2 blues

[Alec Peden <pezking jaded org>]

You can thank duncan for this, but if you d/l the RH7 SRPMS, you can rpm
--rebuild <rpm> and they will work for RH 6.2. I know this isnt the
optimal way of doing this, it does work without too much headache. 



On 08 Feb 2001 14:29:45 -0500, Fernando Pereira wrote:
> On 08 Feb 2001 14:09:53 -0500, Alec Peden wrote:
> > I think the build machine is out of HD space, thats why there has been
> > no snapshots for about a week. Another option is to just co from cvs. 
>
> That's exactly the point I was making to our Ximian friends. It's not as
> if there is a deep-seated software configuration problem that needs a
> week to solve. Not solving the disk space problem says something about
> priorities, and I hope they reconsider them so that they can both
> attract customers and benefit from their willingness to test their new
> creations, and eventually to pay for service.
>
> The last time I built from CVS I spent the best part of an evening
> getting everything to work out, because of missing libraries etc. I
> succeeded, but then I found that the CVS version was behind the snapshot
> I was fighting with, and now I have no time to redo the experiment. As I
> said in my previous message, the very small Mac Eudora team was able to
> keep releasing packaged betas that worked on a wide variety of MacOS
> versions and hardware configurations, so the problem of maintaining a
> good relationship with early access users is solvable.
>
> -- F
>
>
>
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