Re: [Evolution] downloads page

[BAPR <prbasmith gmail com>]

On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 12:19 -0700, N B Day wrote:
> On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 15:30 -0300, BAPR wrote:
> >
> Are you sure about this?  Evolution is no longer the *default* MUA in
> Ubuntu, but reasonably up-to-date versions continue to be offered in the
> repositories.  I'm not on Saucy now, but I'm sure that offers evo 3.8.x.
> Saucy (13.10, to be released in mid-October) still uses the evolution
> calendaring functions for their version of the GNOME calendar too.

> From the Evo info blurb provided in Ubuntu Software Centre in the latest
stable version of Ubuntu

Quote
Canonical provides critical updates for Evolution Mail and Calendar
until January 2014.
Unquote

I may have overstated the situation but if they are not going to provide
maintenance updates they might as well say they are not going to include
it in the distribution

>  
> In the (IMO) very unlikely event that Ubuntu drops evolution entirely
> there will certainly be people on the outside packaging it and offering
> it in PPAs.  While this is a little riskier than using the
> distribution's own repositories, I've never had the slightest problem
> using PPAs hosted on well known places like SourceForge.  This doesn't
> differ a whole lot from using the "universe" repository.

Be that as it may, if we newcomers have little knowledge of your
technical world (I have no idea what a PPA is), you are essentially
depriving those less technically inclined folks from jumping on the
Linux bandwagon.


> Please don't top post.


Ahh - the words that drive many of us away from these helpful forums

P