we should move this to gnome-list@gnome.org ..

[Ryan Leduc <leduc control toronto edu>]

I think we should move this discussion to gnome-list@gnome.org  ..

This list is for announcements, and gnome-list is for discussion..

I think people have been patient enough with us abusing the announce
list..   ;-)

I'm sending the rest of my reply to teh discussion list

Ryan



On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Kelly Lewis wrote:

> Two things:  1) This is not really an announcement, and 2) no, RPMS are not
> hard to build, as a matter of fact, you can do it yourself.  I really think
> it is more fun to compile things myself.  Look at the docs for RPM, and give
> it a shot.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Stephen Gava <stevgava@netspace.net.au>
> To: <gnome-announce-list@gnome.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 3:34 PM
> Subject: Re: GNOME libs 1.0.7 has been released
> 
> 
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > > Miguel, why have the 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 releases only been placed in
> > > > /pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-libs/blah, without the corresponding symlinks
> > > > to /pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0/sources/blah?  I think most people tend to
> > > > look in the second location.
> >
> > > BTW, when RPMs are expected?
> >
> > I've been wondering about this too. Announcements keep comming out about
> > important bug fixes and improvements in crucial parts of gnome like libs
> > and core and mc, but the rpms aren't updated.
> >
> > > Guys, RPMs are 0.0.4 versions outdated! Is it OK? Is it really diffucult
> to
> > > build RPMs every time you change .src.tar.gz?
> >
> > If this is a problem for the busy gnome guys, does anyone reading this
> > list know of another source apart from the gnome archives where more
> > recent rpms may be floating around?
> >
> > > May be someone does this
> > > outside of GNOME team?
> >
> > Lots of folks are using the rpms, and trying them out for the first
> > time, it seems a shame to leave them with seriously buggy versions when
> > further great development work on bugfixing and other improvements has
> > been done since then.
> >
> >
> > Regards,
> > Stephen Gava.
> >
> >
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