Re: Yet another newbie

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

Oh, please.  :)  These RPMS are only several weeks old.  Admittedly this
isn't on the absolute bleeding edge, but it's about as close as you can
expect for a binary release this large.

I mean, really, does apache make binary releases so often?  What about
KDE?  Or any other project of this size, for that matter.

bob@kehs.ksd.org wrote:
> 
> The problem with the RPMS are:
> 1. They are sorely out of date so no good bug testing can be done from
> them.
> 
> 2. half of the tar balls dont have working specs to make up to date rpms.
> 
> On Sun, 7 Feb 1999, Jesse D. Sightler wrote:
> 
> > Zach Frey wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > This is an incredibly short-sighted attitude.
> > >
> > > Lack of stable RPMs is a significant deterrent to GNOME installation.
> > > I don't think it's reasonable to expect everyone who wants fairly
> > > up-to-date GNOME releases to do an anon CVS checkout.
> > >
> > > I have yet to get a stable and working GNOME installation, either
> > > through CVS or through attempts to grab fairly recent tarballs.  Now,
> > > not to brag on myself, but I'm a moderately competent and experienced
> > > software developer, new to Linux and this "gooey" stuff, but with some
> > > years of Unix experience.  So I suspect I'm not the only one with
> > > these problems.
> > >
> > > I'd be happy to be turning in quality bug reports, and even some
> > > patches, but I need to get something up and running first.  Stable
> > > RPMs would help.
> >
> > Then please turn in comprehensive, and useful reports on EXACTLY what
> > the problems with the RPMs are.  Simply saying "there are some" isn't
> > enough.  :)  Seriously, it works fine here.
> >
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