Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 2/10/09, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> From: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at fedoraproject.org>
> Subject: Re: Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)
> To: olivares14031 at yahoo.com, "For testers of Fedora Core development releases" <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
> Cc: "Jesse Keating" <jkeating at redhat.com>
> Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 6:18 PM
> Antonio Olivares wrote:
> 
> > What is the difference?
> 
> Whether Fedora provides the very latest in rawhide is a
> different question from how patched it is for the versions
> it does provide.
Some packages appear to be a bit behind, but they get there soon (with a few exceptions of course :) )
> 
> > Fedora follows the kernel packages very closely,
> Openoffice, KDE, GNOME, etc., why are those packages
> mentioned here not in the same realm, after all I know that
> ImageMagick releases updates very much, while running
> rawhide we get lots of new packages every day and why are
> texlive, ImageMagick and other programs left a bit behind?
> > 
> > I wish I could understand a bit better :(
> 
> It differs depending on the package. If it is a library or
> a core dependency, maintainers will have to be little more
> careful in pulling them in even for rawhide. In the case of
> TexLive, upstream licensing is a mess and needs very careful
> and tedious reviews.
Fair enough :)
> 
> If you follow discussions in fedora-devel list or read
> Fedora Weekly News, many such topics are covered frequently.
> 
> Rahul

I do follow FWN and it passed me by :(, I see the trouble comes down to licensing.  What does the latest version of TeXlive have to offer over the one that is in Fedora 2007?  What does the latest ImageMagick from their site have that is better than the one in Fedora?  They do move rapidly and release often new versions of their software.  

Thanks for taking the time to answer the differences.  It is sad that it comes down to licensing :(, I had a thought there that it was/might have been hard for developers/package maintainers to keep up with the upstream vesrions of the questioned packages :)

Regards,

Antonio