Re: [Evolution] Idealism face plants against asphalt [Was: downloads page]

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> What is the downloads page for?

It's for pointing people at the source code - remember, this is FOSS,
one of the requirements is that the source code is freely and easily
available.

>   It is obviously not for users to download Evolution for themselves
> to use so who is it for?

Some do use it, but it's certainly not something that *most* users would
do.  Indeed, to compile Evo, it's usually better to use something like
JHBuild which would get the source from the Git repository.

I consider myself to be a fairly competent Linux user of many years and
perfectly capable of compiling packages.  But I resist the temptation to
compile packages that are available in repositories because it means
that the packages are taken out of the standard update mechanism; I
would have to monitor various sites for critical/security updates and
then recompile the code everytime it's updated.  Far better to let the
distro maintainers do all the QC and compatibility checks.

P.