On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 12:17 -0800, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 13:29 -0500, William Case wrote: > However - after doing so, evolution in Fedora 8 had altered my configs > in such a way as to make evolution in CentOS crash - had to wipe my > evolution preferences completely. Fortunately I use imap so that was > trivial. Furthermore, rhythmbox on Fedora 8 altered my playlists such > that they crashed rhythmbox in CentOS 5 and I had to delete them and > start over. > > I really wish more open source developers would think about users who > may end up needing to regress before they alter stuff that breaks > earlier versions of their app. But that's a side issue. ---- yeah but an important issue... Fedora 8 uses a newer version of gnome and evolution as you probably figured out. Gnome and Evolution developers have a damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead mentality, for good and for bad. I wouldn't necessarily tar all open source developers with the same brush used for gnome and evolution developers...I think that's unfair. Craig
