[330] in Athena User Interface
Fwd: Helix GNOME in Athena.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Mon Jul 24 18:09:26 2000
Message-ID: <4tT=uH0GgE6rTHWX0p@mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:09:23 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: aui@MIT.EDU
Here is what I replied to Nat Friedman.
Did what I said sound reasonable? I can always
send a correction.
-wdc
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 02:37:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Nat Friedman <nat@helixcode.com>
Subject: Re: Helix GNOME in Athena.
Excerpts from mail: 12-Jul-100 Helix GNOME in Athena. Nat
Friedman@helixcode.c (256*)
> Hi Bill,
> Are you still interested in using Helix GNOME on Athena? Our
> distribution & support infrastructure have improved a lot lately (since
> we've actually begun servicing clients) and I think that we're up to the
> task. What are your thoughts?
> Nat
Things are very crazy here with the move and all. But I have managed to
have some discussions with people.
Consensus is that the Helix GNOME distribution is not really what we
should run right now. We've been sending a few very important changes
to the GNOME developers. We've got a snapshot from the GNOME master CVS
tree, and we're trying to keep in synch with them as much as possible.
We do have one system that we occasionally install vanilla RedHat and
Helix GNOME onto for experimenting and showing off. When we put Athena
into the picture, however there are many things we need to fiddle with.
We are very much looking forward to Evolution as a candidate mail reader.
It's my belief that Helix Code's efforts are best focused at end users
who are unable to work with the GNOME CVS tree directly.
The work you are doing is very important, but not a good match for what
we're up to right now.
-wdc
