Re: [Evolution] how to upgrade to the upcoming version of Evolution?

[jack wallen <jlwallen insightbb com>]

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 19:40 +0100, Andre Klapper wrote:
> hi jeff,
>
> Am Montag, den 12.12.2005, 02:53 +0900 schrieb Jeff Co:
> > I heard that a new version of Evolution is coming out this Monday,
> > December 12.
>
> yes, it will be the experimental version 2.5.3.
>
> > It will be a developer/unstable version. I hear that this version will
> > clear up a lot of bugs from the current version.
>
> who says that? and who says that there won't be more new bugs introduced
> than old ones fixed? ;-)
>
> > How do I upgrade to this upcoming version?
> > I'm a Ubuntu breezy user. If you can help, please provide step-by-step
> > instuctions, easy enough for a newbie to understand.
>
> ubuntu packages are only provided by the distribution maintainers
> themselves, but not by the gnome or evolution folks. i guess you need to
> switch to ubuntu dapper and ask them to check out evolution 2.5.3.
> of course you can also (and always) compile from source, but i don't
> think that this is an easy way for a newbie - it also took me quite some
> time before i succeeded in compiling non-trivial applications on my own.
>
> don't get me wrong, i don't want to say "do not use 2.5.3", i just want
> to stress that unstable versions are experimental. nearly everything can
> happen, you can lose data or have new crashes or freezes where you would
> have never expected them before. one should really reflect on if it's
> worth to use an unstable version instead of a stable version.
>
> the stable versions also do fix a lot of bugs. to which bugs exactly do
> you refer to? what is it that makes you unhappy? :-)
>
> cheers,
> andre

so how will Fedora Core 4 users upgrade? there are some odd bugs going
on. for instance - pilot syncing STINKS! i can get my clie pegsj30 to
sync with kpilot but not with evolution.

will i be able to update with yum?

thank you.

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