What bug report?(Re: Where to report bugs? [WAS: about symbolic links on Desktop])

Joe Klemmer klemmerj at webtrek.com
Sat Jun 3 02:40:48 CEST 2006


Stefan Stuhr wrote:

>>I don't know why people keep bringing this up, but
>>there is no way anybody but the developers can keep up
>>with the latest SVN. Sorry, but this doesn't make
>>sense to me.
> 
> I disagree. It isn't that hard; I do it.
> 
> First, use an RSS feed reader (e.g. Liferea) with the following feed:
> http://svn.xfce.org/rss.php?repname=xfce4&path=/&rev=0&sc=1&isdir=1
> 
> Second, use one of the scripts for Xfce SVN. They makes it easy to keep
> Xfce SVN up2date. It's even possible to make a script that only updates
> selected components, so you don't have to recompile all of Xfce every
> other day.

	This presupposes something that's usually not thought of by developers 
(I know I always forget it).  On a desktop system for regular users 
there should not be any compilers or other development tools installed. 
  No amount of scripts will overcome that obstacle.



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