Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2005 02:51:15 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.12 available for FreeBSD Message-ID: <1126421475.56750.45.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--=-soMBb8ueUE8J/QVmzhm2 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable The GNOME 2.12 port is done for FreeBSD. You can get the official 2.12 release notes from http://www.gnome.org/start/2.12/notes/en/. However, due to the slush in anticipation of 6.0-RELEASE, it will not be going into the ports tree right away. We don't have a firm date on when 6.0 is going to be released yet, but it looks like GNOME 2.12 will be imported in early October. There is some good news. If you're willing to go through the merge steps, you can start using it now. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html for instructions on getting GNOME 2.12. The warnings about development code can generally be ignored for the time being, however, there are still some develop-class modules in the MarcusCom ports tree (e.g. gnumeric). Packages for the Desktop have also been built for i386 and amd64 architectures (5.4 and 6.0 only at this time), and are available from the GNOME Tinderbox. See http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/docs/faq2.html#q21 for instructions on obtaining Tinderbox packages. Note: the new gnome_upgrade212.sh script supports upgrading from Tinderbox packages. Use the -p or -P options to enable this feature. Currently, there is one FreeBSD-specific known issue with GNOME 2.12. GTK+-2-based Linux ports (e.g. acroread7) will not work due to changes in the fontconfig cache file format. A solution is currently being sought, but if you have access to a RedHat 9 RPM of fontconfig-2.3.2, that would help tremendously. We are also still looking for FreeBSD splash screens. Please submit them to freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.org. Be sure to check out the new FreeBSD GNOME theme, Beastie (x11-themes/beastie), created by our very own ahze and mezz. Finally, per our previous announcement, GNOME 2.12 is not supported on FreeBSD 4.X. The supported releases are 5.3, 5.4, 6.0, 5-STABLE, and 7-CURRENT. We will, however, be maintaining the GNOME Platform (infrastructure libraries such as GLib, GTK+, libgnome, etc.) on 4.11 and 4-STABLE. Marcus on behalf of the FreeBSD GNOME Team --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-soMBb8ueUE8J/QVmzhm2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDI9Pjb2iPiv4Uz4cRAurxAJ4jVXFpwECQtcurOf8u8gM+dJZtfQCgoJSc R1y1vZJ2gLWOwNIyCcUiJUc= =KrX6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-soMBb8ueUE8J/QVmzhm2--
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