Re: [gentoo-dev] QA issue: No stable skype in Tree

[Kent Fredric]

On 6/14/07, Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o> wrote:
> Also, ion3 was IIRC removed recently also for upstream trying to force
> new versions against our stable policy. And that was opensource.

[U] x11-wm/ion3
     Available versions:  (~)20060326 (~)20061223 (~)20070318-r2 (~)20070506-r1
{doc ion3-voidupstreamsupport-truetype unicode xinerama}

*waves finger at humourously* didn't even eix? .. or do i need to
sync again on this slow connection to witness insanity of pain :(

> But maybe Skype is not so pressing to upgrade, just doesn't provide
> distfiles anymore. Then maybe we don't have to obey, but still it's
> really questionable if it should be marked stable at all.
>
> And yeah I'm a Java dev but at least Java is now open (I admit that the
> stable VM's in tree are not, yet) and I don't see that coming for Skype.
> Also Java (and your examples of closed source stuff) are not infamous
> for the bad stuff mentioned above.
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype#Criticisms [2][3]
> [2] Oh noes I cited wikipedia, unreliable source of arbitrary information.

[3] Oh noes, you cited ( essentially ) open-source arbitrary information :P



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