> Another reason may be that it is difficult to build the development > version because it depends on released versions of some libraries that > are not included yet in the major GNU/Linux distributions
Whether they're included in the latest major distributions is quite irrelevant unless a developer (or indeed, user) is USING the latest major distributions. I imagine (okay, know) that unix-heads can be pretty shy of re-installing their operating system world just to get a small handful of the latest versions of OMG L33T DEPS!!! apps working properly.
As you say, as time approaches infinity the issue tends to zero.
Meanwhile...
--Adam -- Adam D. Moss . ,,^^ adam@xxxxxxxx http://www.foxbox.org/ co:3
