There is one inaccuracy with what you are saying. In terms of gentoo there is no packaging necessary just the ebuilds need to be updated. and I would not be one bit suprised its already out int he wild for gentoo somewhere for testing and stabilization purposes
--- Regards, Jonathan Aquilina Founder Eagle Eye T On 2014-11-05 00:22, Simon Lees wrote: > Hello. On 03/11/14 01:44, Nex6|Bill wrote: so; each "branch" E17, E18, E19 > would be considered "stable" but the verious OS teams and packaging teams are > just being very conservative in staying with E17. since its the sort of > proven stable, and the dependancies may be easier to target. We can only do > the releases. It's up to the packagers to pick them up. regards Trying to reply to Stefan's comments in the gmail web interface (Sorry for the broken ness) In a lot of cases for Linux distro's (Gentoo, Debian, Fedora, etc) (Examples taken from what i heard on IRC) the main reason that there is no e19 yet is because no one has done the packaging work most distro's haven't had a dedicated person packaging and pushing new enlightenment releases over a long term period (2+ years), most packages seem to have been created by someone who had a bit of time at one point and then stopped, hence the wide range of different versions that can be found. Some notable exceptions, Arch has apparently always had up to date packages, at openSUSE there is a team of 2 of us (myself included) that do updates in our spare time, openSUSE 13.2 released yesterday ships with e19. Gentoo used to have dedicated people but from what i've heard they haven't got to the latest release yet (atleast in the official archive) Bodhi and elive both seem to still be focusing on e17 (although e19 is being worked on for bodhi) I think this is more of a issue that in the past they shipped alot of extra themes and modules that weren't officially supported and that no longer work in e19 (stuff like engage for example) As for BSD's in general its probably again mostly a case of no one sitting down to do alot of the packaging work but there may also be work needed to port some parts of the efl libs with only Linux and maybe Win32 support to BSD api's i think eeze is the main example normally bought up here, but i'm no expert and it may already work. Maybe someone else can comment. Cheers Simon Lees -------------- Enlightenment Maintainer - openSUSE ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel [1] Links: ------ [1] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-devel
