Re: Did GNOME go 1.0 too early?

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

On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 22:38:12 Nils Jeppe wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> 
> >   I actually agree with you mostly.  Can someone 'official' please explain to
> > me why it was released so early?  I can understand gnome-libs but why
> > everything?
> 
> Because that way they could release it on Linux World Expo? Ride on the
> wave of media attention that's gonna get them?
> 
> Me, I just wanna check out Gnome again after finding 0.30 to be a pile of
> poo. Anyway, the installation of the RPMs is annoying - I use SuSE 6.0 and
> I think I am getting a little fed up with the whole package idea but
> nevermind - but it looked nice enough so I figured, let's see how bad
> the RPMs are and grab the source.
> Big mistake.
> I expected some nice, easy compile.. But no.. not only do I need a heap of
> libs, it's also not finding a couple of libs that I do have, and ohwell,
> it's too early in the morning to get frustrated. All I want is a
> ./configure that works. Other people are able to do it, why not Gnome.

Er, I've been compiling out of CVS here for weeks now with remarkably few problems, so I find it
doubtful that the problem is with Gnome's configure script.  :)  I would suggest that if you 
can't figure out how to compile a system as large as Gnome yourself, you should wait until
official SuSE 6 RPMS are released.


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Jesse D. Sightler
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