On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 14:35, Robert McQueen wrote: > On Wed, Jun 04, 2003 at 03:12:37PM +0100, Ross Burton wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 15:09, Ghe Rivero wrote: > > > We know that most of Ximian Desktop are simply patches that will be > > > integrated in gnome soon, but for the moment, woody is the stable > > > release in Debian and there is no gnome2 (well, there are un-officials > > > packages, but not really stables). So our plans are to make a "stable" > > > release of gnome2 (ximian based) for woody. > > > > Good point -- I'm a little slow at the moment. > > > > There are GNOME 2 backports from Sid to woody -- it would be excellent > > to have more people working on them and making them rock-solid. > > > > Ross > > I have a fair degree of faith that Ximian will release their desktop > environment for woody, and that we should just wait for them to do it, > rather than wasting our time. They have people who are paid to do this > and will invest many many more hours and come out with a very nicely > polished product. They released a statement when woody came out that > they would not release XD1 on woody, but instead would concentrate on > XD2 and release that on Debian when it came out. Nowhere does it say > they have stopped supporting Debian. They're just targetting the RPM > distros first because they are more commonplace. > > Regards, > Rob >
quote http://osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=3705 : By Nat Friedman (IP: ---.ximian.com) - Posted on 2003-06-03 18:52:21 : With regards to Debian - we're not building Debian packages. It takes : too much work to keep up with unstable and stable is too old. I'm sure : some of our patches will get into Debian eventually. It appears Ximian are expecting Debian to do this ourselves, and we have people volunteering to do so - so I don't see this as a waste of time. my two cents, Shaun
