On Thu, 14 Feb 2013 10:54:10 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote: > On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 18:09 +0000, Jeffrey Needle wrote: >> Anyone have any idea if there will ever be a ppa available for >> Evolution so that updates to the latest versions will be smooth, as it >> is with other apps? Last I checked, there was no ppa for Evolution. >> Maybe it's changed. > > ppa? What's that? > > Quick google ... Professional Publishers Association ... no; Performance > Preparation Academy ... don't think so; Power Purchase Agreement ... > possible; Personal Package Archive ... ah, yes, probably. > > OK. It's an Ubuntu specific thing. In that case, I think the best > thing is to ask on the Ubuntu mailing lists, not here. Remember though > that Evolution is a Gnome application - it's releases match the Gnome > releases and are often dependent on specific versions of Gnome libraries > - i.e. you would have a hard job compiling & running Evo 3.6 on a Gnome > 2 system. > > Certainly though, I wouldn't want the Evo developers to get side tracked > into packaging Evolution for specific distros. I mean where does it > stop? If you do a PPA for Ubuntu, should you then do a Yum archive for > Fedora (probably not necessary because Fedora keeps up to date!), or a > Yum archive for RHEL/CentOS/SL - don't forget both RHEL5 & 6. What > about an Apt repository for Debian? > > P. >
They all sound good to me! <grin> Since the software repository found in Ubuntu and its derivatives, like Mint, are nearly ubiquitous in the Linux world, many producers of software find it to be a good idea to keep the latest versions in the repositories. LibreOffice, etc., all have found a way to do this. I would think that the Evolution people would find this to be a desirable thing to do, in order to ensure that folks have the latest version of the software. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
