Hi Andrew, agree with you. Lastly I've been thinking to switch to debian to get something more "stable", a least with less upgrading system.
I know in the near feature I may get shotwell running on my system working a bit. Thanks for your comments. Cheers, xavi 2011/8/24 Andrew Stacey <[email protected]> > Just chipping in ... > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2011 at 11:09:33AM +0200, Xavi Viader wrote: > > In my opinion, is not very useful to upgrade all my stuff every 6 months > as > > ubuntu pretends. I do like ubuntu but I don't want to be every half year > > repairing those applications or functionallites that has stopped to work. > > I dit it from 8.04 to 10.04 (8.10,9.04,9.10) and I got fed up as every > > upgrade implies something that stops working. > > Completely agree. That's why I recently "upgraded" to Debian. > > > I'll will continue using Shotwell partially with all things that are > still > > useful for me. > > > > Anyway, I'm not complaining I'm just expressing my "sadness" because I > was > > so happy thinking that I was gonna have 0.11 fully working (with my > > language) in my ubuntu 10.04. > > I haven't tried with 0.11, but I did get 0.9.3 working on my Debian system > a short while ago. Of course, I had to install some updates of some > libraries, but there's no reason not to do this if there's a particular > application that you want to install that needs them. Just remember to > install in /usr/local (if they can be used system-wide) or in something > like > /usr/local/share/shotwell_libs if they're only to be used with shotwell > (then > set the LD_LIBRARY_PATH before launching shotwell). > > So just because you don't want to upgrade the core OS doesn't mean that you > can't install recent versions of particular software. You just might need > to > do a bit more work. > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ Shotwell mailing list [email protected] http://lists.yorba.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/shotwell
