Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 13:45:17 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" <marcus@freebsd.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Summary of Adam's GNOME on BSD talk Message-ID: <op.sqtydrxl9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> In-Reply-To: <1116099557.1389.10.camel@gyros> References: <1116099557.1389.10.camel@gyros>
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On Sat, 14 May 2005 14:39:17 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > Adam Weinberger (adamw@) gave a talk entitled, "GNOME on BSD" at BSDCan > 2005 yesterday. The talk started right on the dot at 1400 EDT, and was > attended by approximately seven people (people came and went during the > talk). The most notable attendee was D'Arcy J.M. Cain who works on the > pkgsrc system for NetBSD. Hopefully Adam will make the presentation > available in some form soon, so I won't summarize the presentation. > > There were a few questions at the end of the presentation. > > What is the current state of mono on FreeBSD? I answered that BSD# will > have a working version of mono 1.1.7 in the tree in about a week or so. Right and if there are lesser than three or two offical ports that will not work with Mono 1.1.7, then we will mark them as broke for a while until they update to get work with Mono 1.1.7. It's no big deal, because there are more C# apps that are already work better with Mono 1.1.7 on FreeBSD than what we have in offical ports tree. > When we move to GNOME 3.0, how long will GNOME 2.x be supported? Adam > responded that GNOME 3.0 is still in the distant future. We will see > GNOME 2.12 and 2.14 before 3.0 comes out. Once that happens, it really > depends on how quickly users migrate to the new platform. If it's > really quick, we will abandon the 2.x desktop quickly as well. However, > we will still maintain 2.x libraries for a long time to come (as is > being done for GNOME 1.4). adamw, do you still want to change the name (foobar2 -> foobar) if there is no two of it? > D'Arcy asked what problems NetBSD faces with GNOME minor updates (e.g. > GNOME 2.8 to 2.10). Adam mentioned the dependency changes that can > occur in a minor update (e.g. port A now depends on port B when it did > not before, or port A now installs files previously installed by port > B). He also mentioned that NetBSD's ``make update'' would handle most > of the dependency problems, and gnome_upgrade.sh could probably be > ported to NetBSD to solve any remaining problems. > > <opinion>I wish more people would have attended. I really feel we've > done a tremendous job with GNOME on FreeBSD, and Adam did one hell of a > presentation.</opinion> Thanks for do the summary, marcus! adamw just has posted his presentation, I will check it out. Cheers, Mezz > Joe -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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