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

[Rudolf Künzli <rudolf kunzli gmail com>]

Same for me on Fedora, where I started with Fedora 7.
I update my system in a daily manner and I upgrade to the next Fedora
version the day it's released.

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Rudolf Künzli - rudolf kunzli gmail comSkype: rudolf.kunzli

On Fri, 2015-09-25 at 11:11 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
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