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Date: | Tue, 15 Sep 2015 10:12:31 -0400 |
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Subject: | Re: [geda-user] Happy birthday |
From: | "Evan Foss (evanfoss AT gmail DOT com) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com]" <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> |
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On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 7:50 AM, Peter Stuge (peter AT stuge DOT se) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] <geda-user AT delorie DOT com> wrote: > Juergen Harms (juergen DOT harms AT unige DOT ch) [via geda-user AT delorie DOT com] wrote: >> distributions have the policy of strictly limiting the distributed >> software to stable versions of upstream packages. > > Yes, it's really sad that distributions offer so little added value. > There is a huge potential for distribution differentiation in > following upstreams much more closely. Oh well. I run gentoo and for all it's faults (of which there are many) a lot of software has packages that are stable, unstable and cvs. Oddly geda only has stable and unstable. >> this average user does not profit from the results of what is being >> discussed on this list: geda-gaf probably looks more or less dead >> to him. Can this be improved? > > Yes it can. It requires man- and womanpower for release engineering, > which is sometimes very easy and sometimes not easy at all. One part > is the mechanical package creation, more challenging is to tie up all > loose ends that are hanging around, so that a release can be made > with a promise of being a consistent improvement (minimize regressions). > > It is possible to help with this process as a user, but it does > require stepping out of the package manager box, and potentially > even building from source yourself. :\ > > > Kind regards > > //Peter -- Home http://evanfoss.googlepages.com/ Work http://forge.abcd.harvard.edu/gf/project/epl_engineering/wiki/
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