On Monday 19 March 2001 12:35, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> I thought you might find this very reassuring:
My hunch is that there's more to it than we're seeing here. Why is it so
difficult for Ximian to support THE most popular desktop distro? He seems to
be leaning a bit heavy on the weasel words ("waiting for Red Carpet to
mature", "after a reasonable interval for testing", etc.). This has been
their line for a long, long time.
Also the comment about Gnucash not working with 7.2 sounds odd to me as well.
There are both Cooker and 7.2 versions of this package and I've never heard
anyone else say it "won't work" on 7.2.
My personal conspiracy theory is that Ximian is having severe workflow
problems. Despite the massive infusion of corporate cash, they've missed
some critical dates for Evolution, GNOME 1.4, etc.
M.
> Subject: Re: [HC Hello] Ximian-Gnome NOT on Mandrake 7.2 -- Why?
> Date: 19 Mar 2001 14:51:34 -0500
> From: Mark Gordon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> There are some bugs in helix-update that prevent us from releasing the
> most critical package (an updated gdm) through normal channels, so at
> this point it looks like we're waiting for Red Carpet to mature a bit
> more. In the meantime, the updated gdm package can be downloaded from
> http://primates.ximian.com/~peter/gdm-2.0beta4-22mdk_helix_10.i586.rpm
>
> There are a couple of other fairly minor bugs (icons in gmc have some
> issues; we need a new gmc package specific to Mandrake 7.2. Also, our
> gnucash package won't work on Mandrake 7.2).
>
> We haven't abandoned Mandrake. We plan to support Mandrake 7.2 as soon
> as Red Carpet is a bit more stable, and we plan to support Mandrake 8
> when it is available (after a reasonable interval for testing of our
> packages).
>
> Sincerely,
> Mark Gordon
>
> On 16 Mar 2001 21:20:09 -0600, Benjamin Sher wrote:
> > Dear Ximian, Mandrake and friends:
> >
> > A simple question: Why is it that after nearly six months, Ximian Gnome
> > is still NOT available for Linux-Mandrake 7.2? Is there some technical
> > difficulty involved? If not, why has it taken so long? And will it be
> > available on the upcoming Mandrake 8.0?
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Benjamin
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