Official Word on Enlightenment DR14

Geoff Harrison (mandrake) writes "Just thought I would take this time to say a few words about the up and coming release (yes, we're looking at likely friday night / saturday morning FOR REAL this time) But I'm sure that a lot of people have likely been going nutzo about No it isn't out QUITE yet! how many times can I say that you can find copies of it floating around all over the place, but if you download something before this coming weekend, "it ain't the official release". Yes, there are rpms already auto-building. Yes, there will be daily snapshots from the source tree even after the release. Yes, it is true that there will likely also be daily rpms built and distributed of the source tree. Yes, the ftp server is coming back (it's been down forever and a day). Yes, it is true that there are no root menus, iconification, or pager in 0.14 (we decided to get a stable release out in our lifetimes). But there are a lot of new features including the beginnings of a configurator, real online help, an entirely new and improved configuration language, a completely revamped memory management codebase, and plenty of other nifty features (too many to go over here). Yes, the code was completely scrapped from enlightenment 0.13.3 for 0.14 -- we decided that the old codebase was getting too unwieldy for where we want to be able to take enlightenment in the future, so we rewrote the book again. It's looking very promising, and we hope that you will like it as much as we do. (I'd like to think that it was worth the wait) --mandrake "