Date: 01 Oct 2002 19:23:30 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz> Cc: freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNOME 2.1 upgrade Message-ID: <1033514610.343.32.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <1033513996.379.7.camel@saturn> References: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <1033513996.379.7.camel@saturn>
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On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 19:13, James Pole wrote: > On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:57, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > What do people think of upgrading the GNOME 2 components to the > > just-released GNOME 2.1 versions? This is the development version that > > will become GNOME 2.2. This will involve updating components such as > > pango and gtk2. This may not be acceptable. > > > > Another alternative is to create -devel versions of the 2.1 components. > > Of course, this will create pains when upgrading. It should be noted > > that the 2.1 and upcoming 2.2 components will be _source and binary_ > > compatible with the 2.0 components. > > I suggest we create -devel versions, so people can continue using the > stable versions while developers can use the development versions. > > Most other ports follows this philosophy, so why not GNOME? The only reason I suggested the former was that we haven't made a release that uses GNOME 2 by default. The questions was more along the lines of do we have GNOME 2 track the 2.x train, or do we track releases? I could go either way. I just thought I'd get some opinions from the user base. Joe > > - James > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message > -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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