My understanding of the purpose of contribs is for 3rd parties to contribute applications, which may be non-GPL, which are then distributed as unsupported contribs by Mandrake as a courtesy.On Thu, 27 Feb 2003 07:06:14 +1100 Ron Stodden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:My local mirror here shows that there has been no update to 9.0-contribs since October last year.That's correct Ron. Neither the 9.0 main or the Contrib tree will have changed since 9.0 went final which was in Oct.Once 9.1 goes final the and mirrors are updated current Cooker Contrib will become the 9.1 Contrib but there is usually a delay between the appearance of the new Main and new Contrib on the mirrors as Main is always changed/updated first. During this delay it is safe to use the current Cooker Contrib as an update source, but only for a period of a week or 2.
I find it incredible if there have really been no 3rd party application contributions for 9.0 since Oct 2002. Previous releases had plenty of contrib updates during field currency of the current release. So nobody has ever submitted any contribs based on a stable 9.0?
Now it seems that 3rd parties must develop thier contributed applications against the always-changing not-stable status of Cooker if they are to make it (untested!!!) into the next release?
I reallly do find this incredible! Unbelievable!
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