Re: Decoupling GNOME Office?




On 29 Aug 2000, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

> Jody Goldberg <jgoldberg@home.com> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Aug 29, 2000 at 04:01:22PM -0400, Pat Eyler wrote:
> > > 
> > > I'd far rather see a separate relase of GNOME Office (G.O.) a bit after
> > > the 1.4 GNOME release.   Certainly the 1.4 release would need to include
> > > the infrastructure bits (guppi et al.) that G.O. will depend on.  My
> > > reasons are:
> > >   *  I'd rather see G.O. listed as a 1.0 release - it hasn't gone through
> >                                       ^^^^^
> > 
> > I'd rather not do that.  [...]
> > Until the various office components are even marginally integrated
> > there seems little utility in releasing them together.  The
> > integration will not occur until things are more bonobized.  There
> > is no need to rush.
> 
> Well right now we're stuffing all the semi-mature ones in the GNOME
> release itself.  [...] We could simply drop the large apps from the
> GNOME release and release them all separately at about the same time as
> GNOME 1.4.
> 
> In either case, I think it's bad to include office suite components
> with the core release, and a bad idea to wait until they are all ready
> and well-integrated before splitting them off.
> 

This is the point I was getting at.  I would rather see a bundle of
applications as a separate download, and not have a bunch of almost ready,
but not quite integrated office apps in the GNOME 1.4 release itself.

-pate

>  - Maciej
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