why older version on official site ?

[Muhammad Sharfuddin-2]

evo 2.26.2-2 for MS Windows could be download from

http://sourceforge.net/projects/shellter/files/Evolution/Evolution-2.26.2-2/Evolution-2.26.2-2.msi/download


but on official site( http://download.go-oo.org/evo/ ) the latest
version for MS Windows is 2.22.2-1
http://download.go-oo.org/evo/evolution-2.22.2-1.msi

why the older version on official website ?
and should I use 2.26 confidently ? or use 2.22 from official website
?

-ms

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[Milan Crha]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 13:02 +0500, Muhammad Sharfuddin wrote:

> evo 2.26.2-2 for MS Windows could be download from
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/shellter/files/Evolution/Evolution-2.2
> 6.2-2/Evolution-2.26.2-2.msi/download
>
>
> but on official site( http://download.go-oo.org/evo/ ) the latest
> version for MS Windows is 2.22.2-1
> http://download.go-oo.org/evo/evolution-2.22.2-1.msi
>
> why the older version on official website ?
> and should I use 2.26 confidently ? or use 2.22 from official website
> ?

        Hi,
hmm, I always thought the official Evolution website is
http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/
and the port to MS Windows is just an effort of other people, (more or)
less related to Evolution team.

The Gnome Windows binaries aren't as that up to date too
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/evolution/

With respect of versions, the recent stable version is 2.28.1. It's
usually better to use the latest, because of bug fixes. Though the 2.22
is a version before movement to db-summary for messages. Maybe try 2.26
and if you think it has some issues, then try 2.22? I do not know, I'm
using a development version, and on a Linux machine.
        Bye,
        Milan

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[Tor Lillqvist]

> why the older version on official website ?

Because nobody cares enough to maintain what versions are offered from where?

> and should I use 2.26 confidently ? or use 2.22 from official website ?

All builds of Evolution for Windows are so far experimental and come
with no promises. Use them at your own risk.

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[Muhammad Sharfuddin-2]

On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 11:52 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:

> On Thu, 2009-11-05 at 13:02 +0500, Muhammad Sharfuddin wrote:
> > evo 2.26.2-2 for MS Windows could be download from
> >
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/shellter/files/Evolution/Evolution-2.2
> > 6.2-2/Evolution-2.26.2-2.msi/download
> >
> >
> > but on official site( http://download.go-oo.org/evo/ ) the latest
> > version for MS Windows is 2.22.2-1
> > http://download.go-oo.org/evo/evolution-2.22.2-1.msi
> >
> > why the older version on official website ?
> > and should I use 2.26 confidently ? or use 2.22 from official website
> > ?
>
> Hi,
> hmm, I always thought the official Evolution website is
> http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/
> and the port to MS Windows is just an effort of other people, (more or)
> less related to Evolution team.

Thanks for the info(I really was not aware of this before)
Do you suggest using evolution on windows then ? I mean when evolution
is not officially maintained and provided for MS Windows.. so is it not
better to use any other open-source email client on windows ?.
I mean what about stability/reliability of "evolution" for windows ?

> The Gnome Windows binaries aren't as that up to date too
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/evolution/
who maintains this ? its look like an official website.

-ms

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[Tor Lillqvist]

>> The Gnome Windows binaries aren't as that up to date too
>> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/binaries/win32/evolution/

> who maintains this ? its look like an official website.

I do, but not really "officially". Depends on what you mean with
"official". And it's not really a website, but a FTP site...

The GTK+ stack (libpng, zlib, GLib, atk, Pango, GTK+) binaries there
are somewhat "official" and very up-to-date. But the GNOME stack stuff
above GTK+ up to and including Evolution is very much less so, as you
notice.

You can find fresher Win32 binaries of the GNOME stack and Evolution
in the openSUSE Build Service,
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/windows:/mingw:/win32/openSUSE_11.0/noarch/
. But you need to learn how to unpack them and how to manage
dependencies yourself. And of course, these are experimental, too,
with no support.

Eventually the stuff on ftp.gnome.org will be superseded by stuff from
the openSUSE Build Service (just repackaged as trivial zip files
instead of RPM packages), but we are not quite there yet.

--tml
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