Thread: New release named "chinook"?
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Seb Per is offline Seb Per
2007-07-01 , 14:47
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#34
Originally Posted by aflegg View Post
Really? Where? If it's stuff on the web, point to it rather than just being cryptic. Users who don't follow maemo-developers, IRC etc. are getting over-excited for no good reason - hell, I'm a developer and there's only a few things slightly exciting in those slides from a developer point of view, and *nothing* from an end-user point of view.

As you point out later, this next update (assuming there is one to support Skype) won't be chinook: there've been no early releases to developers which is *specifically* mentioned on the slides, due to the API incompatibility with moving up to a newer Gtk.

Cheers,

Andrew
Andrew,

I don't wish to be cryptic. It s just that I don't dare to quote things and particularlary quite technical threads that are - to my surprise - hanging out on the net. Also you re appearing there as a developper :-) however not in the most concrete ones, be assured.

For 2 reasons
- I don't think whether it s wise to point or copy paste this kind of information
- my technical knowledge is crappier than crap. So I limit myself to be just indicative. As you point out, I can see the community is excited, so don't want to add oil on the fire but rather between the cogs.

I think I posted a few days ago a message where I clearly I indicated how to find information I m relating to: google then relevant keywords. as easy as that.

It is true that end users don't gain anything from this kind of information. But terms and mythological names (Bora, Chinook, for example) create a fuzzy environment that generate mysticism that everyone is prone to absorb and project out.

Cheers

Seb