Hey again.
I got feedback from the evince hackers.
There is only one person maintaining the windows port.
He releases new installers for new major versions of evince. He will probably release new version of the installer if evince itself contains security holes. He does not monitor evince' dependencies for security issues and will therefore not build a new release if a dependency of evince contains security lacks :(
What should we do with this?
There is a bug report filed to add an auto-updater to evince in windows but there is no progress on that feature :(
I thought about filing a new feature request via www.cofundos.org for evince to include an auto updater.
I would pay 10€ for it, is there anyone else willing to do so?
Have a nice weekend, Henner
On 03.05.2010 22:24, Jan-Hendrik "HennR" Peters wrote:
Hey.
On 03.05.2010 22:17, Karsten Gerloff wrote:
- pdfreaders.org provides an overview of the numerous free
PDF readers out there. There are free solutions available for Windows. All people need to do is start using them.
Kinda right, but we still have no auto updater in evince.
Ok, if we don't have a convincing story, it's not worth to put time into preparing a PR.
Thanks for trying, though -- this is exactly the process where good ideas become stronger. So it was definitely worth thinking about.
Yep.
I contacted the evince devs and asked them about continuous updates of evince. There also already a bug filed regarding the auto updater.
When the auto updater is released we can make a press release advertising a free and secure pdf readers. As long as we have no auto updater we can't say that this reader brings more security to the windows world.
We should be careful not to be seen favouring one project or another.
A release saying "FSFE says: Evince is great" would probably get us lots of complaints from Okular etc. developers.
Oh yes, that right.
Can we think of an angle that's more along the lines "Try a Free Software PDF reader on Windows today"?
Yep, that's a good idea. We don't have to mention (in the same sentence) that evince is the only recommended reader on the site ;)
Sorry Karsten, I am tired and ill. I will go to bed soon.
No problem! ok, rest and get well! Thanks for the effort you've put in.
Thanks.
Henner
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