On 10/09/2010 06:23 PM, Scott Furry wrote: > And as suggested by the Go-OO site, the rationale for distribution was > to avoid some of the politics and interpretations of open source that > can occur. Packaging to me just makes sense.
+1 The current version of Thunderbird that is available in the Ubuntu repostory is 2.0.0.24. Thunderbird 3.1.1 is in the PPA. The current version available from MozillaMessaging is 3.1.4 If packaging is left exclusively to the distros, what are users of those distros to do, when the current version is not packaged by the distro? Do you really want to people; "Sorry, we can't help you, because the version you are using is no longer supported?", even if they are using the most current version available from the distro repository? I'm using Thunderbird as an example of what happens when distros don't keep up with current versions. There are packages that have dropped out of both the official repository, and the PPA. OOo in the official Ubuntu repository is version 3.1. In the PPA 3.2 is available. jonathon -- No human will see non-list, non-bulk, non-junk email sent to this address . It all gets forwarded to /dev/null -- To unsubscribe, e-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org All messages you send to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted. List archives are available at http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/
