Re: Fresh Install RH73 / Ximian Gnome Desktop / Gnome 2 Snapshots

On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 14:28, J. Gardner Biggs wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 02:33, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
> > Hey,
> > 
> > It's a bit harsh to suggest that because the nightly snapshots (which
> > are development previews for testing purposes) of gnome2 don't work that
> > gnome2 isn't ready for the masses.
> > 
> > If you want something that works, then use the Gnome2 official release. 
> > Remember, you're playing around with software that actively being
> > developed and isn't ready for release, so don't expect it to always
> > work.
> > 
> 1.  Which Red Carpet channel do I subscribe to, in order to install the
> "official" gnome2 release?

None, yet. I assume Ximian will want to add some more spit and polish,
as well as have their own applications (like red-carpet) ported before
they release their version.

 
> 2.  I was under the impression that after the "official" release that
> all the efforts were to eliminate bugs from the official release.

But elliminating bugs and all the other brushing up _will_ occasionally
result in instabilities and brokenness; it's a natural part of
development, and is the very reason there is a difference between
releases and snapshots. I know a good deal of the terminal problems
lately have been due to a change of renderer, making gnome-terminal
AA-aware, as well as some other items of interest. This broke things for
a while.

I think we are pretty aware of the status of the snapshots here. :) But
this is the kind of things you should expect from tracking the
development version this closely. You just can't expect production-level
stability from automagically generated snapshots of the current
development codebase. That the snapshots usually have been so very
stable is a good testament to the care the devels have not to break
stuff, but it may have lulled us into expecting far more from the
snapshots than they actually promise to deliver. I tracked the devel
snapshots of Evolution for six months before its 1.0 release, and it was
always exciting to find out whether I would actually be able to read or
write mail that day or not. By comparison, the gnome2 snaps have been so
stable and usable - even before the 1.0 release - that it's easy to
start depending on them for our day-to-day work, even when we really
shouldn't.

/Janne


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