Re: [Celestia-developers] Frequency of dot version releases

[Fridger S. <t0...@ma...>]

Pat Suwalski wrote:
> 
> 
> No one is cut off. Mr. Schremmp, you can go and install GTK2 and it will
> in no way, shape, or form affect your current GTK1 install. In the same
> vein, if Celestia were to go truly Unicode, you know that Windows98 (and
> everything < WinME) would have to go and install the unicows.dll library
> from Microsoft?

You misunderstood me here, I think. I am of course aware of what you said here.
No, my point was that GTK1-Celestia users will be cut-off from using Celestia,
if they do not update to GTK2. Among the people using our DESY-Linux for
example, are many Celestia devotees (necessarily using the GTK1-version, since
KDE3 is also not installed, only KDE2). They have no root rights and cannot
update. Just as an example. 

> 
> The autotools stuff is very messy and quite broken. This is partly due
> to the autotools themselves (no one likes those), and partly due to the
> Gnome1 implementation of autotools input files.

I of course have plenty of (bad) experiences with 'autostuff';-)
> 

	
Bye Fridger