Re: Trinity
On July 12, 2012 02:13:20 PM Pino Toscano wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Alle giovedì 12 luglio 2012, Bruce Sass ha scritto:
> > > 1) Trinity is not in Debian.
> >
> > True, but it has been packaged for Stable and Oldstable based systems
> > which makes it more likely to eventually appear in Debian than some
> > random piece of source out there.
>
> Not really; consider for example that qt3 has been removed recently from
> Debian (so squeeze is the last stable release with qt3), so any kind of
> reintrouction of it into the archive will not be that welcome.
That's a good thing... nobody should want old and unmaintained Qt3 apps in the
archive. However, it may open the door a little more for the introduction of
Trinity since there is now no pressure to accommodate arbitrary Qt3 based
apps.
> > > So unless any of above changes, this is not a place for "KDE is
> > > crap, Trinity rulez".
> >
> > Nowhere is a good place for: "KDE is crap, Trinity rulez"!
> >
> > However, given Trinity's origins (as KDE-3.5) and goals (be installed
> > alongside and work with KDE-4 and apps), debian-kde is the best place
> > within Debian for someone looking at introducing it into the archive
> > to bring it up-- this is where the DD/DM expertise wrt KDE-3.5 and 4
> > resides, and this is the place with the most potential for finding
> > interested users.
>
> No, debian-kde is definitely *not* the place for advertising Trinity in
> any form, nor for finding your users.
>
> Please bring Trinity away from this list, thank you.
Sure... all I wanted to do was correct some BS about Trinity being an obsolete
clone of KDE-3.5.
- Bruce
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