On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 11:21:47AM +0800, Ladislav Bodnar wrote: > > Even worse-sounding than the things on distrowatch which are clearly wrong > > are the breakdown of versions. Either they do not track our revisions, or > > I can virtually guarantee that a system purchased today will not be usable > > with potato. > > Would you mind suggesting a better way? The distribution-specific pages on > DistroWatch simply list some major packages in each release as the releases > evolved. No, you misunderstand me. It's a good thing that you break out the major packages like that and I do see all the way up to 2.2r5. Potato looks bad by comparison to other dists because it IS bad. That's our problem, not yours. The top-ten page has values which do not match the Debian page though. > The only purpose is reference. Once a new version is released, I add > it to the table so that visitors can compare it with a previous release and > see immediately what is new. As for unstable and testing, I keep it updated > (each day, more or less) because many people run one of those versions. But > the basic idea is to have a page where people can look at and compare > packages with a single glance; then make the decision on what they want. The > Debian page is visited by 100 to 300 people a day, so I think it is pretty > useful. It's really a good feature. Don't change it. =) -- Joseph Carter <knghtbrd@bluecherry.net> Only l33t on Thursdays <Coderjoe> gib, perl? <gib> methinks perl is the programmer's Swiss Army Chainsaw
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