wouldn't tarball snapshots be nice to have?

[Artemio]

Hello all!

I am sorry if I should have sent this to kde-devel, but I think this 
is somewhat more related to this list.

The question I want to ask is simple: wouldn't it be nice if at least 
some applications like KPDF and such had latest stable versions for 
download at their sites? So far, almost none of the apps that ship 
standard with KDE offer this.

However, often a user with limited internet access wants to get the 
latest version of some app which fixes some bugs he can't work 
around. Like if he has KDE 3.4.1 and then there is KDE 3.4.2 and he 
only needs KPDF from it, but downloading the whole KDE is very hard 
for him and getting via SVN means that in plain codes you need to 
download 10x more than if it was a tarball. I hope you get my point.

For example, K3B guys always have their latest tarballs for download, 
no matter if it is in KDE anyway. And this is very useful - I can 
always just pick and compile it to get rid of some bugs that didn't 
allow me to work normally (this is only hypothetically, K3B works 
well ;-))).


Thanks for reading.


Sincerely,
Artemiy.