On Fri, 2003-06-13 at 20:05, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> I'm also on Red Hat 7.2, and as a developer I can tell you it is a royal
> hastle getting 1.4 on a Red Hat 7.2 system because it requires an
> XFree86 upgrade, installing fontconfig, upgrading libfreetype, and a
> bunch of other stuff. GNOME 2.2 just won't build without all this... and
> in fact, I had to hack a lot of the sources to even get gtk 2.2 and
> other GNOME 2.2 libs installed on my system even with all the upgrades.
> 
> My guess is that this is also a big reason why we (Ximian) do not
> support Red Hat 7.2 anymore, it's just too much work.
> 
> Jeff

Not to mention, redhat will no longer support 7.2 after December 31st. 
What's the point of putting work into something that won't be around
much longer?

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Dan Stromberg DCS/NACS/UCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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