Ben Reser wrote:
> No it doesn't. If you go look at the site. The latest *STABLE* release is
> 0.8.10. Which is what Mandrake has in it. 0.9 (per normal Linux style
> versioning) is a development version and shouldn't be considered stable or
> usable.
>
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2000 at 05:39:26PM +0200, Joakim Bodin wrote:
> > I've noticed for a while now that Linux-Mandrake includes a pretty
> > old/deprecated Eterm version. Are there any reasons to this? If there
> > isn't a maintainer for it I'd gladly become it's maintainer.
>
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> Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> http://ben.reser.org
>
> <snip>
Ok, so I got KainX (Michael Jennings, Eterm Author) opinion about this and his
reply was that 0.9.x wasn't "unstable" just a "development" version of Eterm
and reffered me to part of the Eterm FAQ
http://www.eterm.org/docs/Eterm-0.9-FAQ.php#q1
which pretty much explains it all. My opinion is that Eterm 0.9 is seen as as
stable as 0.8 which is barely maintained. Eterm 0.9 is also a great
improvement and that is why I want it to be included in Linux-Mandrake instead
of the outdated 0.8 version. As I said earlier I'm willing to maintain the new
Eterm version if noone else wants to. I was also wondering if it could be
possible to make a "hack" Eterm to the contrib section of Linux-Mandrake that
is Eterm 0.9.1 which really is "unstable" and which includes Imlib2 that I
could also package without much trouble.
Joakim Bodin
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