Marcin Miłkowski wrote: > Mathias Bauer pisze: >> Nicolas Mailhot schrieb: >> >>> That's completely true on the 'no building or packaging' side. On the >>> 'just give access' side, distributors prefer regular versioned archive >>> dumps on an ftp/http: >> >> OK, I will put this information into the ongoing discussion about >> possible changes of our build environment, packaging etc. >> >> I still don't understand why providing rpms or debs directly isn't >> acceptable but I don't need to understand everything. ;-) > > Firefox and other Mozilla teams provide their own builds for Linux, and > especially security updates. Some distros are really lagging with > releases or break releases. To take a real example: I really like my > Suse PC (10.1) but three months ago it broke my Firefox during update > and the last version of OOo is 2.04 (I don't need to mention that > automatic updates get broken every two months or something). Similarly, > some Debian flavors are known for such a thorough testing process that > it really lags things and people are making lots of "unstable" forks. > > So just in case some distro is not acting fast, let's keep our builds. > They saved my life several times :)
Of course we will keep the "distro independent" builds (especially as these builds usually contain less untested patches) but what I wanted to express that I don't understand why the dictionary packages that might be created in these builds in the future are not enough. But I can live with this and I agree with Nicolas, sometimes it's better not to ask. :-) Ciao, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
