On Thursday 04 December 2008 16:50:20 Willie Wong wrote: > > It's a convention. No sane coder will ever release a package with version > > 9999, that is conventionally used by devs for their development stuff in > > cvs/svn/git/whatever, so vapier is just falling in line. > > Not exactly what I meant. But your answer above already solve the > problem: in my opinion it is one thing to "fall in line" for each > package (in this case, enlightenment) separately, and a completely > different thing to just make the assumption that 9999 version numbers > will never be used (practical experience aside, of course :) ).
yeah, those things that will "never happen" somehow always do happen. Like Y2k :-) > I will probably just suck it up and install e17 anyway: I use DR16 on > my stable desktop, but mostly fvwm on my testing laptop. I tried DR17 > a bit back on my laptop, but way back then something in the chain of > DR17-Xorg-my ATI video card doesn't like the eye candy. I'll give it > another try to see if it has miraculously gotten better. (Though I am > rather fond of my fvwm setup now; I just wish I can figure out a way > to get transparencies to play nice with some of the quirky stuff I > have in my configs.) e17 doesn't like transparency and compiz-style effects. You can get it to work with the bling module or by using a compositing manager like xcompmgr or a derivative, but I found it wasn't exactly stable on nVidia. You may have better luck with ATI. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
