> > What is the downloads page for?
It's for pointing people at the source code - remember, this is FOSS, one of the requirements is that the source code is freely and easily available. > It is obviously not for users to download Evolution for themselves > to use so who is it for? Some do use it, but it's certainly not something that *most* users would do. Indeed, to compile Evo, it's usually better to use something like JHBuild which would get the source from the Git repository. I consider myself to be a fairly competent Linux user of many years and perfectly capable of compiling packages. But I resist the temptation to compile packages that are available in repositories because it means that the packages are taken out of the standard update mechanism; I would have to monitor various sites for critical/security updates and then recompile the code everytime it's updated. Far better to let the distro maintainers do all the QC and compatibility checks. P. _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
