Re: [Evolution] downloads page

[Tom Davies <tomdavies04 yahoo co uk>]

Hi :)
When i visit any of those links that i listed i get a page that lets me download a Gnu&Linux version. 

Often the versions in those links is different from the version that is in my distro's repos.  Sometimes it gives me the same version but just not tweaked in the way my distro's package maintainers have tweaked the version that is in the repos.  In any case it means i can choose whether to get a version from "upstream" or from my distros repos.  For most programs i stick to the repos (and that is what i generally recommend to noobs) but some give me added bonuses if i get them upstream. 


Seriously, you are suggesting "talking to my distro"??  Perhaps at the same time i could drop a quick note to Steve Bullmer and Billy Gates too and then MS would be bound to drop Outlook in favour of Evolution. 
Regards from
Tom :) 

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From: Andre Klapper <ak-47 gmx net>
To: evolution-list <evolution-list gnome org>
Sent: Sunday, 25 August 2013, 11:02
Subject: Re: [Evolution] downloads page

On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 22:13 +0100, Tom Davies wrote:
> 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/

Ermm, so? All are projects also available for non-Linux platforms
(Microsoft Windows etc) which do not have software centers / app stores
included. Evolution is Linux/Unix only (Evolution's builds for Microsoft
Windows are ancient unmaintained non-working).

Evolution HAS had a download page for years at
http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/download.shtml and it clearly tells
you how to get Evolution. Again: I don't care about every single
distribution out there deliberately trying to make things harder for its
users. Bring it up to your distro if your distro wants to be different.

Cheers,
andre
--
Andre Klapper  |  ak-47 gmx net
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/

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