In a way, I agree. E is becoming more and more functional and stable. But, thats chould be another reason why distros could package it. If an application is stable and full of features, why not package it up? People have a stigma about non 1.0 packages. If something isnt 1.0 they straight away call it 'buggy' and not-finished. A classic case of this is wine. Wine 0.9.20+all the ones up to 50+ series were stable and useful. Then 1.0 came out and a lot of people said 'Whats the difference?'. Dont get me started on the KDE 4.0 debarkle. They chucked an unfinished DE out the door and said 'We want more developers.' while making the users jump into some horrible development version.
So you see my point? Projects tend to release half-cooked stuff and expect people to just gobble it up. I think E should never do that. If someone has an issue with using non-1.0 packages, then its their loss! :) On that note, I think the snapshot cycle should be set, with some bug hunting done in the week before a snapshot happens. That way we have a set development release that people can infact use and we can have a good idea of where they are. Toma 2008/9/2 Wido <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi to all! before you start blaming me, i want to ask some thing from > my point of view 8the user one) and have some feedback about this > thing from other users and developers, i have no intend to start > WWIII. > > I've been using E17 from about a year or so, i think i started in > version .24 or so. Since i put it it's has been my primary desktop and > I only change it whe E brokes. It impresive how far you all have reach > and how good E has become. So i was thinking, isn't about time to > start thinking in freeze main EFL and e17 and make effort to hunt > bugs, so main distros can add it in official repos? i'm not saying > sotp coding and improving it, im saying just to freeze it in a state > that main distros can add it in main official repos, so it can more > easely reacheble to users. I always read that E's main goal is to be > as fast and eyecandy as posible, and i think it has reach that state. > Beside, we can always add new cool stuff using the power of e_modules, > don't we? > please, let me and other common users know what you think about this > and let me know if i'm wrong or something > > > cheers!!! > > -- > Wido > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
