On Thu, 2012-11-29 at 20:21 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > > My > > experience posting questions on this list is that developers are > > reluctant to take on problems unless you use the last Evo build, > That's a bit unfair.
Unfair? This is totally bogus. People *very* frequently come to this list using ***ancient*** packages; nobody, nowhere, supports ancient versions of their stuff. Neither does jumping across multiple major releases and expecting upgrades to be seamless 'fair'. Upgrade from Microsoft Office 2000 to 2010 [no, that isn't seamless at all, some of your documents will be munged]. Life is easier if you keep up; no matter what, if you sit still for multiple years - going forward from where you are is going to have thorns. Not that I don't understand the temptation to sit on a working install. Try jumping straight from PostgreSQL 8.0 to 9.1. Try upgrading your NT4 domain to Active Directory *now*. You can't. The upgrade tools have all been abandoned and no longer work. > Many bugs get fixed, especially from .0 to .1 > releases, so in general the first thing to do is to run the most recent > version to see if your particular bug is fixed. If your problem is fixed > in the latest version, then the solution is to use the latest version. This is easiest to do if you use a distribution which packages current stuff and is at least within a proximity of 'mainline'. A very common distribution doesn't do that. I also don't think you need to run the "most recent version". It certainly helps to run something close to recent. > If you can't run the most recent version, then you should still provide > valid backtraces so that the problem can be located and, if it is a new > bug, reproduced in the most recent version so it can be fixed. Yep. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
