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Re: GNOME 2.0/Helix for Athena

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Maciej Stachowiak)
Fri Jul 14 14:55:41 2000

To: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@eazel.com>
Date: 14 Jul 2000 11:55:58 -0700
In-Reply-To: "Christopher D. Beland"'s message of "Fri, 14 Jul 2000 12:27:45 -0400"
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"Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU> writes:

>
> I think there is no danger of Gnome being left by the wayside.  It has
> a successful company actively developing it, in addition to an
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> incredible amount of attention in the wider community. 

Ahem. Multiple companies. :-)


> Actually, I was wondering why we're using vanilla Gnome 1.2 and not
> the Helix Code distriution, which seems to be updated more frequently
> and have some bug fixes the mainline doesn't.

I don't think you're right that Helix has a lot of bug fixes they
haven't merged into the mainline, since that would be rather rude of
them, but I could be wrong.


Maciej Stachowiak
Hacker
Eazel, Inc.

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