On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Marc Deslauriers
<[email protected]> wrote:
On 13-10-01 03:16 PM, Adam Dingle wrote:
I've used Ubuntu every day for 7 years and am active in the GNOME
community.
The fact that Ubuntu lags one release behind GNOME is already a
significant
burden for me. I often spend time building the newest version of
GNOME apps,
which can be challenging since Ubuntu's libraries lag behind.
If Ubuntu stays with 3.8 for Saucy+1 (i.e. starts to lag two
releases behind
GNOME), I'd quite possibly switch to Fedora or Debian. Staying
with 3.8 could
be fine for most users, especially if Canonical wants to focus most
of its
energy on phones and tablets. But for anyone who wants to use the
latest GNOME
apps and especially anyone who wants to contribute to GNOME
development, two
releases back is just too much.
Isn't there a GNOME PPA that has the latest version in it? That would
probably
be exactly what you need. Even one version behing isn't great for
GNOME development.
Yes, there is the GNOME 3 PPA
(https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3) and now also the
GNOME 3 Next PPA
(https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3-next).
Unfortunately
1. These PPAs still lag behind. For example, I've been on Ubuntu Saucy
for months now, but until recently only GTK 3.8 was available in the
PPAs, preventing me from easily running newer GNOME apps which required
3.9.x. WebKit 2.x was also not available for a long time.
2. These PPAs are less stable than the daily build. For example, just
last night I was trying to figure out why the Ubuntu Online Accounts
control panel wouldn't show up for me, and eventually I found the
problem vanished when I purged the GNOME 3 PPA.
For these reasons, it would be a lot more convenient for me if the
actual Ubuntu daily build tracked the latest GNOME or was one release
behind at most.
adam
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