Hi,
Simon Ree wrote:
Guy Zelck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello all,
Will there ever be a KDE3.1 version released for 8.x?
I only now can say that I've got my 8.1 system like I want it to be. In
the mean time Mandrake raced versions, which in my view is crazy .
It's becoming more and more difficult to have recent versions of
programs. I find myself more and more rebuilding packages. A lot of
packages (libs) change names between versions and taking a recent spec
file to rebuild a package yourself is often hell as you have find out
what you need from scratch and change all required package names in the
spec.
Why change to a new program version in the first place if you are happy
using a old os version?
Old? MD8.1 is from Sep 2001, that's 1.5 years old. Using KDE2.2 together
with all the other updates doesn't mean I have an old os. It's not
because every 6 mths there's a new version, that the previous 2
versions are suddenly old. They overtook RH in version number, very
good Marketing wise, but not good for anything else.
You would advocate That mandrake should build
packages for for all of their old versions? KDE 3.1 for v6 maybe?
That's exagerating, that was not my question? A longer support period
would be more reasonable, say 3 years, certainly for substantial
packages. Creating a newer version less often would help, and instead
provide upgrade waves (service packs ;-) )
Even guys that started of with 9.0 now have to be club members to get
kde3.1. This is a sad development. I see Mandrake more and more slip
away from being a free os distributor. I understand they have
difficulties so I payed for a regular membership myself for 2 years in
a row now. You get very little with this. But more and more the regular
users are left out. This is very sad I find. I starts to stink for $s.
Cooker may be a choice for those who allways want the latest and
supposidly greatest. Still free.
Then I could have as well upgraded to 9.0.
So I'm afraid there's little chance to get rpms from Mandrake for 8.x.
If there's no good soul in the community who put packages available I'm
in for an ordeal to get kde3.1 compiled and packaged for 8.1.
Maybe you could build it?
I'll have a go at it, sure.
I'm not saying mandrake shouldn't support old
versions, but the old distro did not ship with the intention of being
brought up the the latest level of every package. My Explorer came with
a 5L V8, they now come with a 4.6L V8, should Ford provide me with a
upgrade path other than purchasing a new one?
Crummy comparison.
Guy.
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