Re: GNOME libs 1.0.7 has been released

["Kelly Lewis" <kellydlewis earthlink net>]

Two things:  1) This is not really an announcement, and 2) no, RPMS are not
hard to build, as a matter of fact, you can do it yourself.  I really think
it is more fun to compile things myself.  Look at the docs for RPM, and give
it a shot.


----- Original Message -----
From: Stephen Gava <stevgava@netspace.net.au>
To: <gnome-announce-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Friday, April 09, 1999 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: GNOME libs 1.0.7 has been released


> > Hi
> >
> > > Miguel, why have the 1.0.6 and 1.0.7 releases only been placed in
> > > /pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-libs/blah, without the corresponding symlinks
> > > to /pub/GNOME/gnome-1.0/sources/blah?  I think most people tend to
> > > look in the second location.
>
> > BTW, when RPMs are expected?
>
> I've been wondering about this too. Announcements keep comming out about
> important bug fixes and improvements in crucial parts of gnome like libs
> and core and mc, but the rpms aren't updated.
>
> > Guys, RPMs are 0.0.4 versions outdated! Is it OK? Is it really diffucult
to
> > build RPMs every time you change .src.tar.gz?
>
> If this is a problem for the busy gnome guys, does anyone reading this
> list know of another source apart from the gnome archives where more
> recent rpms may be floating around?
>
> > May be someone does this
> > outside of GNOME team?
>
> Lots of folks are using the rpms, and trying them out for the first
> time, it seems a shame to leave them with seriously buggy versions when
> further great development work on bugfixing and other improvements has
> been done since then.
>
>
> Regards,
> Stephen Gava.
>
>
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