On Fri, 13 Apr 2007, KC7ZRU wrote:
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.
Yeah, and I could easily get worked up over top-posting and full-quoting,
but I'd rather not ;-)
I have read many frustrated posts on the xastir and aprssig lists, from
people who actually want to run xastir, but they find the initial step
just too big to climb. Most of them are not even Linux users, much less
programmers, so the whole process of installing libraries first, then
compiling from source, is totally foreign to them. The distributions do a
great job of making Linux accessable to newbies.
Yes, the pathway by which packages like xastir get included into
distributions is convoluted and mysterious. And as Murphy might have
predicted, they seem to take random snapshots of the code at the most
inopportune moments. I think that bug of opening into a tiny window
actually existed for only a few days in CVS, but here it is the first
impression that a newbie gets of xastir, and it will continue to be for
a whole year.
There has been discussion on the list of late towards declaration of a
newer 'stable' release, so with that in mind, I thought I might be able to
help by tracing the pathway to at least one distribution, and see if I
could contribute something by shortening that path with some hand-holding,
or even learning how to build .deb packages myself. I'm not deprecating
the work of the developers, I'm just trying to get their best work into as
many appreciative hands as quickly as possible.
--
Rick Green
"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
-Benjamin Franklin
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