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

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On 26 August 2013 23:55, Tom Davies <tomdavies04 yahoo co uk> wrote:

Is that why people are getting so defensive about Evolution's inability to provide what every other project seems to be able to provide?

The current software set available in most Linux distros runs to several thousand packages. A typical installation runs to several hundred of these. For example my laptop currently has 1647 installed packages, of which *not a single one* was downloaded from a package-specific download site, i.e. the entire set came from distro repositories. The number of widely-used software projects which support Linux and have individual multi-distro binary download sites independent of the "official" repositories are at most in the 10's, being mainly things like Libreoffice, Thunderbird, Vlc etc. which are multi-platform (i.e. not Linux-specific).

IOW your assertion regarding "every other project" is flat wrong.

 

If you folks just don't have the skills needed then how about we just tackle that first and get someone else to do it for you?

Because we're not remotely interested, as has been explained over and over again. That doesn't stop you from doing it if you want to. Good luck with that.

poc