On 01/12/2012 07:41 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > On Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:35:12 -0500 > Gregory Pittman<gregp_ky at yahoo.com> dijo: > >> For those interested in how long it takes Fedora to update Scribus, I >> just today received 1.4.0 as an upgrade from their repo. > > A couple days after it was announced here I asked on the Fedora forums. > A kind person told me it was in the testing repos, so I was able to > install it with yum --enable-repo (or something close to that; forget > the exact command). > > They never did get RC6 even in testing. And it is possible that my > query on the forums spurred them to get 1.4.0 out; had I not asked it > might still not be in the main repos. I even mentioned that it was time > to retire 1.3.3.14 and move 1.4.0 to stable. I expressed some annoyance > in my language. > > I learned a lot over the past two years of Fedora, so I don't regret > the experience, but when my current 4.5 year old computer needs > replacing I'm probably going to go back to Ubuntu or Mint or something > else. Fedora is, on the one hand too cutting edge for me, and on the > other hand too slow to get things like Scribus in the repos. >
To be a bit explanatory though, the recent version was 1.3.9 -- they made the unfortunate decision to quickly adopt 1.3.4 years ago, and didn't want to listen when I told them this was a mistake. I think that waiting from 1.3.9 to 1.4.0 was not necessarily a bad decision. Greg
