Where's FireFox 1.0?

[Lloyd D Budd]

On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 19:49:24 +0000, vulpes <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org> wrote:
> Colin Watson Wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 07:02:28PM +0000, vulpes wrote:
> 
> > > The problem with taking an approach of not doing updates is that
> > when
> > > major releases occur, like firefox 1.0 (or thunderbird 1.0 when that
> > > happens), is that people "jump ship" to the latest distro that has
> > > feature X. 
How many people do that?  Many people have more important things to do
than hold their brief for a particularly application.  Still in the
worst case for Ubuntu "official" you have to wait a year minus a day
-- depending on the signicance of the application and its release more
likely six months at most.

>> although interested users are
>> welcome to do so.
Like http://www.stud.uni-karlsruhe.de/~ut8g/


> But, Hoary is built against new libraries, right?
It completely depends on the application.  Isn't the same true for
Fedora and other distros?  What magic do they know? ;-)

>  I do not want my
> entire desktop "unstable" just select applications. Right now, I'm
> building from hoary source against warty libs (like the user who
> submitted the howto to this thread). But, it would be nice to be able
> to just grab these things in binary form.
How do you think Fedora's reshrpms / Dag Wiers repository came about ?
 Get together with some other users/developers and maintain a
repository.  I think it is best if the "official" Ubuntu team ;-) stay
focused on what they are doing.

-- 
Peace be in you ,
Lloyd D Budd