Steven,
On 02/07/2011 07:47 PM, Steven Schiebel wrote:
So will there be a PPA update for future versions of Shotwell for Lucid? It
seems a bit short sighted not to support the current LTS release of Ubuntu.
A few points:
With most GNOME applications such as Nautilus, gedit or Totem, you must
run the very latest GNOME release if you want to use the latest version
of the application. So Shotwell is actually more backward compatible
then most other GNOME applications: our policy is that the latest
Shotwell supports both the latest and the previous version of GNOME.
LTS releases of Ubuntu appear only once every two years. If Shotwell
were to always support the latest LTS release, then we'd be unable to
use any new GNOME libraries or features in Shotwell until two years
after they appeared. That might be reasonable at a later stage in
Shotwell's evolution, but Shotwell is a young program which is evolving
rapidly and we want to be able to use the latest and greatest GNOME
technologies at this point in its life cycle.
When Shotwell's feature set matures we may extend the backward
compatibility window further back in time.
Also, if 0.8 builds on Lucid why is there no PPA for that version?
Unfortunately we realized late in the 0.8 development cycle that we
couldn't easily support 0.8 for Lucid on our PPA for technical reasons
involving Vala versions and build dependencies. See
http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/3015
http://lists.yorba.org/pipermail/shotwell/2011-January/001583.html
We won't make that mistake again: for 0.9 and future releases, we're
committed to having our PPA support both the current and previous
versions of Ubuntu.
adam
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