[scribus-dev] getting people to leave the -ng path

[Andreas Vox]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: a.l.e [mailto:ale.comp_06 at xox.ch]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 19. Juli 2011 14:35
> An: scribus-dev at lists.scribus.net
> Betreff: [scribus-dev] getting people to leave the -ng path
> 
> hi
> 
> are there plans to get most of the people who installed scribus-ng in
> the recent past to switch back to scribus as soon as 1.4 is released?
> 
> i don't think that we want them to be automatically upgraded to 1.5.0
> as
> soon the new dev version is out... (except for those just doing covers
> of books with scribus...)
> 
> how can it be managed?
> 
> should we have 1.4 released as both scribus and scribus-ng, with an
> alert on boot stating that most user should switch back to scribus as
> soon as 1.4 is available as a stable release?
> 
> or can debian and ubuntu packaging systems manage this situation?
> 

IIRC we didn't come up with that -ng nonsense in the first place, that were
those package managers. I'd vote for "scribus" for stable 1.4 and
"scribus-dev" for 1.5.
If package managers want to keep scribus-ng, they should use 1.4.

/Andreas