Re: [Evolution] downloads page

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04 yahoo co uk>]

Hi :)
Many projects have a download page, for example; 
http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/
http://www.libreoffice.org/download
http://www.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/
http://www.gimp.org/downloads/
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-windows.html
http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/

Some are more complicated than others but none have a different download for every single version of Gnu&Linux.  Adobe offers about 3 choices; Yum, tarball or Rpm.  I notice that many commercial hardware manufacturers seem to think that writing for Gnu&Linux would require hundreds of different drivers and use that as an excuse for not even writing 1 OpenSource one. 

If i wasn't using Ubuntu would my only option for getting Evolution outside of my repos mean i would have to compile Evo from source??  If so would i have to do that for each different machine in my company??  If i then upgraded my OSes then would i have to recompile again? 

Regards from
Tom :) 

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From: Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>
To: Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>
Cc: evolution-list <evolution-list gnome org>
Sent: Friday, 23 August 2013, 9:37
Subject: Re: [Evolution] downloads page

On 22 August 2013 22:01, Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net> wrote:

Ubuntu is one out of hundreds of Linux distributions out there, and
there are no plans to maintain some download location list for them, or
to deal with every single distribution that decides to not ship
Evolution by default, or to deliberately ship some old version by
default, or or or.

+1

Of course, that doesn't prevent interested parties from maintaining such a download site (maybe they could call it Friends of Evolution) but that would depend on volunteers willing to build new versions as they appear. Sounds like a whole can of worms to be honest.

BTW I'm not offering to do this (just in case :-)

poc

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