On 2007-03-16, Ben Hutchings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Which version" has always been a critical field for bug reports. Even > if you expect everyone to compile from the latest source, they're still > not going to do it every day.
It's not only bug reports; it's all support that you need the version for in Ion. And sometimes it may be difficult to get the version from the luser. They're just using "the latest", or "just installed it". >> I'm also considering extending the license (LGPL) with a "Distributor >> timely response clause" > > Please don't do this. We'd have to come up with some funny new name, > possibly involving the word "ice". Maybe I won't... for Ion3 yet, since it's reaching stability. But as for other projects, maybe. There has to be some way to make distributors pay more attention to the state of the software they distribute... and not patch it too much. It sucks dealing with all the USE=all ricers with Xft patches (maybe it's actually gone now) that I will have nothing to do with. (Not until I can just flip a simple option in a simple non-XML config file not obsoleted by the distro on every second updated, to get clear crisp fonts (unblurred, bytecode interpreter, helvetica allowed) on any distro that I might end up having to use. -- Tuomo
