[331] in Athena User Interface
Re: Fwd: Helix GNOME in Athena.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jul 24 18:21:58 2000
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To: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
cc: aui@MIT.EDU, tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:09:23 EDT."
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 18:21:54 -0400
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
We do not have a snapshot out of CVS. We are in fact just working with
the 1.2 release, in order to maintain our sanity. I/we plan to upgrade
to the 1.4 release at some point in the future.
Tracking CVS would cause us much pain, I fear.
tibbetts
On 7/24 Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU> wrote:
> 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
>
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