Hello Tom, > Other projects just give 2 or 3 pre-compiled downloads on their sites. > I take it that this project doesn't have the skill-set to provide such > a thing? Is that why people are getting so defensive about > Evolution's inability to provide what every other project seems to be > able to provide? If you folks just don't have the skills needed then > how about we just tackle that first and get someone else to do it for > you?
The other projects you are referring to are likely smaller or are of a semi self contained nature. (E.g. Abiword, Libre Office or Open Office)? These projects are not tightly coupled to the Gnome Desktop. However Evolution is tightly coupled to the Gnome desktop making it difficult to ship a new version of Evolution against an old version of the Gnome desktop. The best analogy I can think of is this: you are asking Microsoft to ship a version of IE 11 that works with Windows XP. IE 11 depends far too much on internal components of the current Microsoft OS to run on an old version of the Microsoft desktop. You may say this is a design flaw, but it is how the software was original designed and continues to exist to this day. Evolution dependency to Gnome is similar to Internet Explorer dependency on the Windows Desktop. Also I think you miss the point. Evolution developers are working on pushing the code base forward for the latest Gnome Desktop. If they divided their effort to build packages for popular Linux distributions (let alone all Linux variants available), they wouldn't have time to develop new features. This would be counter productive anyway, as the popular distribution maintainers produce Evolution packages for their variant of Linux. So please enjoy the Evolution package carefully crafted by the distribution maintainer of your choosing. I personally choose Fedora and have been happy with my choice for a decade. Thanks, Rob _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list