Re: [Evolution] evolution 3.10 not sending messages from one of my mail acounts

[Paul Smith <paul mad-scientist net>]

On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 16:15 +0200, Tom wrote:
> ... or better ask them to continuously upgrade to a recent version
> even in LTSs !

That's not possible.  Evolution is a Gnome application, and relies
extensively on the Gnome infrastructure.  It's not like Thunderbird or
Firefox, for example, or even the kernel, which are essentially
stand-alone.  Upgrading Evolution would mean you'd have to upgrade all
of Gnome in the LTS, which is a complete non-starter (Evo does support
one major version of Gnome back, but 14.04 uses Gnome 3.10).  I mean,
what's the point of using an LTS then?  Just get the latest Ubuntu!

If you want a so-stable-it's-ossified distro, then use LTS and that's
what you get.  If you want a nicely stable distro which has fairly
up-to-date software, then use a normal Ubuntu release.  I personally
recommend Ubuntu GNOME actually.

I'm really not sure why people are so wedded to LTS for home use: I've
been using Ubuntu releases for over 10 years and upgrading regularly and
I don't remember ever having anything of consequence broken.  I almost
always do an in-place upgrade, even, rather than installing from
scratch.  I do usually wait a few weeks after release, just to let any
brown paper bag issues clear out.

For corporate use, I guess I can see the benefits of LTS.