Gnome 2.10

z9_87 · 03-23-2005, 03:18 PM

Has anyone found an rpm for gnome 2.10 yet?

{BBI}Nexus{BBI} · 03-23-2005, 03:36 PM

Seems that only the Gnome 2.10 backgrounds are available:

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat...oarch.rpm.html

reddazz · 03-23-2005, 04:16 PM

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Originally posted by z9_87
Has anyone found an rpm for gnome 2.10 yet?

I am not sure if Mandrake is going to have a GNOME 2.10 build anytime soon because it seems like their next release will include GNOME 2.8.

z9_87 · 03-24-2005, 03:04 PM

That's stupid, why use already outdated material? I just hate compiling.

Padma · 03-24-2005, 03:15 PM

Why use outdated material? <shakes head sadly> You obviously have no idea what it takes to bring something to production, in any kind of stable form....

z9_87 · 03-24-2005, 03:28 PM

no, i don't. What does it take to make an rpm?

reddazz · 03-25-2005, 03:52 AM

GNOME is not easy to build and rpms take time to create. I did an rpm recently for leafpad (a very small text editor) and it took me about 45 mins to do the spec file and build the rpm. So imagine how long it takes to build an entire desktop environment and test all the rpms.

Padma · 03-25-2005, 08:29 AM

Building the rpm is the easy part.

If you want to be known as a competent corporation, and not just another bunch of hackers, you make sure you test everything, both separately and as an intgrated package. Then you iron out the bugs you find, and do it again. And again. Repeat as necessary. You also have to schedule things, i.e., make a plan. When Mandrakesoft was planning the 10.2 release cycle, could they count on Gnome 2.10 (or KDE 3.4) being ready for them to include? No. So they planned to include what they knew would be available. So you get a choice. Do you release what you have already tested and verified, on the schedule you already announced? Or do you essentially throw away months of work, and re-do everything to include the latest versions that were released while you were testing, and delay the release by several months?

A release is basically a checkpoint in the development tree. At some point, you have to say "This is it. No more changes will be allowed to this version." Any *new* things get put to the next release.

I will admit that I sincerely hope that Gnome 2.10 (and KDE 3.4) will be added to the repositories for updating your system *before* the Fall release of Mdk2006. But we will probably have to depend on "unofficial" repositories like thac's, for that.