Re: [gedit-list] Gedit updates for Ubuntu

[Emmanuel Touzery <emmanuel touzery free fr>]

Hello,

Peter Anderson wrote:
> Thanks for your considered and detailed reply.  I certainly understand 
> more about the current process than I did before.  I presume from all 
> of the above that the only way one gets an upgrade for G-edit is to 
> upgrade GNOME and the only way to upgrade GNOME is to upgrade to the 
> latest release of your favourite distribution (Ubuntu in my case).  
> This may sound naive, but its not a particularly user friendly 
> approach and while I understand what happens I'm not sure this is a 
> systems building approach I would have taken during my working days.  
> It certainly makes the value of Ubuntu's "Long Term Support" claim a 
> bit dubious.
>
> If I could ask one last question - is it possible to upgrade the 
> complete GNOME environment on say Ubuntu 6.06 or is that just too 
> difficult.
>
> Thanks again for bearing with my uninformed requests and for providing 
> such a sound reply.
I'm happy it helped.
About upgrading the GNOME in dapper... it's possible, tools such as 
jhbuild or GARGNOME would help you, see:
http://gnomedesktop.org/node/2776

However GNOME is big and complex, and it's probably better to stay with 
the one from your distribution, which was widely tested in your software 
environment (gcc version, hal version, ...) and is supported for 
security upgrades. installing your own version of GNOME means that 
you're on your own for security upgrades, etc.

If you really need a newer gedit, upgrading ubuntu would be the best 
solution I think (it's not that hard, and generally it's reliable). For 
that, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EdgyReleaseNotes section "Upgrade from 
6.06 LTS".

emmanuel