Re: [Evolution] DST

["Peter Van Lone" <petervl gmail com>]

On 3/26/07, Matthew Barnes <mbarnes redhat com> wrote:

> Exceptions to the rule have been made, however, and there is some talk
> of whether it would make sense to upgrade the major desktop applications
> (Firefox, OpenOffice, and Evolution) at some point before RHEL 6.  I'm
> in favor of that; it would make my job easier.  But nothing official has
> been decided.

OK, so the situations are analagous.

I guess then, from my perspective (being a reseller/integrator trying
to develop linux desktop offerings for customers) I would certainly
vote to enable upgrade of "the major desktop applications" within
versions. SUSE supports SLED for 5 years.

That is a whale of a long time to expect staying at the same version
for all of these apps. In fact, it almost seems ridiculous to even
contemplate it.

I can understand that only a few apps could be consistently upgraded
over the life of the distro ... otherwise there would never be a new
distro version, just updating the existing one. But at the same time,
if customers have elected the stabilitiy of a distro supported for 5
years, that does not mean that they would willingly choose a
commitment to outdated desktop applications.

Anyway, thanx for clarifying ... it does appear as though this *could*
be possible (ie upgrading SLED evo to newest version) but it is not
trivial ...

I do wish evo was a little less dependant on gnome parts ...

Peter