Critical need for next release

[Biju Chacko]

On 02 Oct 2002 10:33:09 -0600, edscott wilson garcia wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 09:23, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> The xfce-4 distribution mechanism will consist of seperate tarballs
> for seperate components. Perhaps xfce-3 needs to evolve in a similar
> manner, since updating the 5 Mb tarball is rather time consuming.
> 
> I suppose if you split the xfce-3 tarballs into smaller components
> that could replace the xfce-3 distro, it would probably work as a
> model to follow for xfce-4. This would make it easier to
> combine/replace xfce-3 components with xfce-4 stuff. And only those
> components which have been enhanced or bugfixed would need to be
> updated to arrive at the equivalent 3.8.18.

Thats a good point. However, I think that it is critical that we get
3.8.18 out the door *now*, so that people have something to use.

Breaking it into components looks like sufficient work to delay anything
from happening. :-(

-- b


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