Re: Ximian dropping Debian ?
Hi!
They are rigth. Woody is to old. Anyway, a group of spanish developers
are waiting until next monday when sources will be available to start ti
package XD2 for Woody, so "unoficially" it's going to be a Woody
release. But i'm afraid that Connector is propietary so we can not do
any interesting thing with that.
Everybody is invited to help. Please contact me if you are interested.
Ghe Rivero
On s?, 2003-06-07 at 22:14, Brian Gonzales wrote:
> There was something on /. about this. One of Ximian's teenexecutives
> stated that stable was too old and something to the effect that sid was
> too new. Go check it out.
>
> I liked Redhat soley because of Ximian's RedCarpet support. Debian still
> beats it hands down with apt-get...imo.
>
> On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 13:52, James D. Freels wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2003 15:52:44 -0400
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> > I was talking with an Ximian sales person about how to purchase Ximian
> > Connector 1.4. I need this product at my work place in order to interface
> > with the corporate e-mail/calendar server M$ Outlook Exchange. I also had
> > need Evolution 1.4 in order to use the companion Connector product. Both of
> > these products are available for download from Ximian, but not in Debian
> > packages.
> >
> > This sales person stated something to the effect that starting with v1.4,
> > Ximian would no longer support Debian. Further, their products would "no
> > longer run on Debian systems" no matter how I hacked them with alien, etc.
> > He also tried to explain this new policy as something to do with "corporate
> > America", etc.
> >
> > Can anyone confirm this ? This makes no sense to me. First, why would Ximian
> > cut off Debian ? Debian is a strong supporter of gnome which Ximian depends
> > on. Second, how could the product not work anyway provided all the
> > supporting Linux libraries were also loaded ? Do they have some type of
> > check to see if I am running RedHat before Connector will run ?
> >
> > Confused...
> >
> > --
> > James D. Freels, Ph.D.
> > jdfreels@comcast.net or freelsjd@ornl.gov
> > mplayer -cache 100 http://wdvx.microcerv.net/wdvx
> >
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Ghe Rivero <ghe_rivero@yahoo.es>
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