On Mon, 2011-03-21 at 06:03 -0700, Adam Dingle wrote: > Martin, > > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 10:30 AM, Martin Wimpress < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi Michael, > > > > Well, I couldn't wait ;-) > > > > I've created a package for Shotwell 0.8.90 from current SVN (2767) for > > Ubuntu Lucid. If you're feeling brave, you can get the package by enabling > > my experimental PPA. > > > > - https://launchpad.net/~flexiondotorg/+archive/experimental > > > Your backporting efforts are impressive - it's clear that some users are > interested in running newer versions of Shotwell on Lucid and this is > helping them out, so thanks. > > I am curious, however: why are you and others so interested in continuing to > run Lucid rather than simply updating to Maverick?
I had a lot of trouble getting my Radeon video card to work with Lucid Lynx (which is my first Ubuntu installation), because the card is no longer supported in this (and presumably later) versions of Ubuntu. This has made me wary of upgrading, possibly not on a wholly rational basis, I must admit! > Is it because Lucid is > marked as a long-term-support release, or because there was some change in > Maverick you didn't like, or something else? Obviously everyone's situation > is unique, but Ubuntu has made it pretty painless to upgrade so I'm honestly > a little surprised that so many people who want to use the very latest > Shotwell releases want to hold back on upgrading Ubuntu itself. > I'll look at upgrading again once I've got all the stuff I need to use working properly. Michael > > > Hopefully, I've done most of the hard work to pave the way for Shotwell 0.9 > > on Ubuntu Lucid. I have got a libraw 0.13.1 back port ready to publish. But > > I'm not sure what Yorba's intentions are regarding libraw? I'll wait and see > > what develops in the ticket below: > > > > - http://trac.yorba.org/ticket/2583 > > > > > Shotwell only requires libraw 0.9. We encourage people to use newer libraw > releases, though, since there have been many improvements and bug fixes > since 0.9. > > adam > _______________________________________________ > Shotwell mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
