Re: XFCE 4.10
On 05/31/2012 08:43 PM, zxq9 wrote: On 06/01/2012 03:16 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: Andrew Z wrote: just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in packaged form :) ? Probably no time soon, since it apparently requires newer versions of Gtk+, Glib etc than exist in SL 6. http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building Xfce 4.10 requires Gtk+ 2.20 and Glib 2.24 SL6 has 2.18 and 2.22. This sort of thing is why you exchange cutting edge for stability. Its the same issue with moving KDE ahead to 4.3: a lot of the core distro would have to go along with it. The dependency breakages (or, at a minimum, package rebuilds) required are a hard enough maintenance problem that its better to just spin off a new distro than to deal with rifted library problems. Distros get hard to maintain pretty fast, which is why most distros don't make it very far. Since both XFCE and KDE aren't part of SL or TUV's distro but come from EPEL (and probably other repos) its impossible to expect the SL team to decide to fork the entire distro for the sake of one window manager, as this is completely against their goals. Just a minor correction, KDE is indeed part of TUV/SL, it just is not the latest bleeding edge, as you state. -- Mr. Mark V. Stodola Digital Systems Engineer National Electrostatics Corp. P.O. Box 620310 Middleton, WI 53562-0310 USA Phone: (608) 831-7600 Fax: (608) 831-9591
XFCE 4.10
Hello, just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in packaged form :) ? Thank you AZ
Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] XFCE 4.10
On 05/31/2012 10:38 AM, Andrew Z wrote: Hello, just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in packaged form :) ? Thank you AZ With xfce making its way into EPEL, we are letting the packaging happen up there. Pat -- Pat Riehecky Scientific Linux Developer
Re: XFCE 4.10
On 06/01/2012 03:16 AM, Glenn Morris wrote: Andrew Z wrote: just curious if you know the time-frame for 4.10 hitting the SL in packaged form :) ? Probably no time soon, since it apparently requires newer versions of Gtk+, Glib etc than exist in SL 6. http://docs.xfce.org/xfce/building Xfce 4.10 requires Gtk+ 2.20 and Glib 2.24 SL6 has 2.18 and 2.22. This sort of thing is why you exchange cutting edge for stability. Its the same issue with moving KDE ahead to 4.3: a lot of the core distro would have to go along with it. The dependency breakages (or, at a minimum, package rebuilds) required are a hard enough maintenance problem that its better to just spin off a new distro than to deal with rifted library problems. Distros get hard to maintain pretty fast, which is why most distros don't make it very far. Since both XFCE and KDE aren't part of SL or TUV's distro but come from EPEL (and probably other repos) its impossible to expect the SL team to decide to fork the entire distro for the sake of one window manager, as this is completely against their goals.
