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Re: [trinity-users] Ubuntu 12.04 port status??

From: Greg Madden <gomadtroll@...>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 10:28:13 -0800

On Friday 11 May 2012 10:23:00 am Timothy Pearson wrote:
> > On Fri, 11 May 2012 14:18:15 +0200
> >
> > Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@...> wrote:
> >> On Saturday 05 May 2012 20:43:36 Timothy Pearson wrote:
> >> > > Hello, when you manage to package a working TDE (stable or GIT) for
> >> > > Ubuntu 12.04, I'm interested in getting the source Ubuntu packages,
> >>
> >> so
> >>
> >> > > that I can try to recompile them for my Toshiba AC100, which runs
> >>
> >> Ubuntu
> >>
> >> > > 12.04 armhf.
> >> > >
> >> > > Also, has anyone planned to rebuild the stable 3.5.13 or
> >>
> >> 3.5.13+updates
> >>
> >> > > on Ubuntu 12.04 ?
> >> > >
> >> > > Francois
> >> >
> >> > I am not going to, as there were many changes to the base system that
> >>
> >> make
> >>
> >> > 3.5.13 incompatible with 12.04.  If someone else wanted to they could,
> >>
> >> but
> >>
> >> > it won't be particularly easy.
> >> >
> >> > Tim
> >>
> >> Uh... I read this as "no Trinity for Ubuntu 12.04 as long as noone else
> >> tinkers it into shape".
> >> Did I get something wrong here?
> >
> > I think "the next Trinity release will hopefully be compatible, but I
> > won't be
> > repackaging the current Trinity release for the Ubuntu version in
> > question, because
> > I have too much on my plate and don't have the time" would be more
> > accurate.
> > You can still grab the source and try to build, the same as anyone else
> > whose
> > distro isn't presently supported.
>
> R14.0 nightly packages are available, so if you don't mind using
> development code (which should be about Beta quality at this point) you
> can install TDE on 12.04.
>
> See http://trinitydesktop.org/wiki/bin/view/Developers/NightlyBuilds for
> more details.
>
> Tim

Tim, the referenced nightly build info lists Lenny & Squeeze as supported Debian 
releases. Is this a typo ? 



-- 
Peace,

Greg