On Sat, 2011-01-22 at 16:16 +1000, Chris Jones wrote: > > Is this some sort of new policy decision, that Evolution will > > forever be left back in every release? > > Hi Paul. I can understand what you are saying, but is it really that > important to you? I'm curious as to why it's bugging you this much. > Does Evolution 2.32 have a particular feature that you require?
Evolution is now, thanks to the tireless efforts of Matthew Barnes (among others), undergoing impressive amounts of feature addition and bug fixing every single release. With every release it increases its integration with Gnome facilities, reduces bugs, gains new capabilities, etc. at a pretty rapid pace (compared with a few years ago). The code is being cleaned up, dialogs fixed, hangs removed/parallelism introduced, etc. etc. Bonobo and other ancient Gnome technologies are being excised, dbus and gconf uses are being fixed, etc. The IMAP+ backend is being enhanced to work better with newer IMAP server capabilities. Other backends have similar enhancements. Honestly I can't remember exactly what features/enhancements went into exactly which version of Evo. But in general, yes, it is that important to me :-) > If you're keen enough, you can probably sneak in the updated Evolution > into your own system from a third party PPA or something. I'm sure the > deb files are available from somewhere on the internet. It might be > worth your while doing a Google search for them. Well, I have myself created and maintained a makefile that allows people to build Evo (and its various parts) and install it in a separate directory, so it doesn't interfere with the package versions; I prefer this method. There are a lot of reasons this Makefile (or a PPA) are not optimal, which I can get into if anyone REALLY cares. I guess I would turn around your question and say, what's Ubuntu's justification for choosing this one particular application to "leave behind" at an older version? I understand the confluence of "major changes + LTS" that resulted in the 10.04 decision, but this seems like something that would need to be individually revisited for each release. Anyway, it sounds like everything is good for Ubuntu 11.04, sticking with Gnome 2.32. I'm presuming that the Evo 3 will be in the Gnome 3 PPA for those who want to try it, along with the rest of Gnome 3. Cheers! -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
