Personally, and yes - I've a bit of 'tude here - I say we release on OUR
schedule. If some distro or another - no matter how popular - gets
something older due to their policies, that's not an Xastir problem.
Our developers work hard to make this thing work on it's own merits.
They've gone beyond the extra mile to help ensure it compiles on Cygwin
(Windows), OS-X, many flavors of Linux and who knows what else. To try
and add another administrative 'goal' to accommodate the whims of a
specific distro. Well, I think that's just plain silly.
Maybe if they were our major channel - but I sure don't think they are.
And yes, it's been a tough day, I'm cranky and dinner isn't ready - yet
and there's too much water in my wine...
73
Rick Green wrote:
Well, Debian etch just released, and (K,X)Ubuntu will release next week.
I just saw a note giving the release schedule for the *Next* release of
Ubuntu, codenamed 'Gutsy Gibbon', to be released this October.
The process of producing an Ubuntu release begins by snapshotting the
Debian Unstable repository, which will happen automatically until June
21st, which is declared the 'Debian Import Freeze'
A month or so ago, I tracked down the Debian maintainer of the xastir
package, and learned that he rebuilds the package whenever the project
releases a new 'stable' version.
Considering the ease of installation with apt-get, and the popularity
of Ubuntu (and now, its derivatives), I would give a high priority to
making sure that what is declared 'stable' at the time of the next
snapshot is actually that, plus is equipped with a newbie-friendly
default configuration. The last snapshot (In November or December '06),
had the unfortunate habit of opening into a tiny (1/2" x 1/2") window,
and even after manually expanding it, showed no obvious path to a
workable config. The current CVS has these problems fixed, and opens
with a simple line-drawing world map in the background, and the 'station
config' dialog open, which is several orders of magnitude greater on the
'newbie-friendly' scale!
Can we get a new 'Stable' polished in time to have a better showing
for the next distribution cycle?
The one outstanding glitch I see is the lesstiff/openmotif issue.
Ubuntu ships by default with lesstif2, due to what they consider
less-than-open licensing of openmotif. Clearly, there's a bug in the
current lesstif2 library, but I can't find it documented in the ubuntu
bug tracker. Can I get some help describing this bug, so I can
effectively push it upstream, and get it polished as well before the
next release?
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