From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 28 20:18:56 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 2E0A25FB for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:18:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fep14.mx.upcmail.net (fep14.mx.upcmail.net [62.179.121.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71C1412B0 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:18:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from edge01.upcmail.net ([192.168.13.236]) by viefep14-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.8.01.05.05 201-2260-151-110-20120111) with ESMTP id <20131128201848.XYOP13423.viefep14-int.chello.at@edge01.upcmail.net>; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:18:48 +0100 Received: from crashalot.rainbow-runner.nl ([178.84.134.112]) by edge01.upcmail.net with edge id v8Jl1m0102Rg3Ey018JnpU; Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:18:48 +0100 X-SourceIP: 178.84.134.112 Message-ID: <5297A4AC.3060704@rainbow-runner.nl> Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 21:16:44 +0100 From: Koop Mast User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: clutton , freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: the mate port References: <1384135982.54369.4.camel@eva02.mbsd> <528116A0.8070105@pcbsd.org> <52815DDF.201@rainbow-runner.nl> <1385400283.60650.10.camel@eva02> In-Reply-To: <1385400283.60650.10.camel@eva02> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.16 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 20:18:56 -0000 On 25/11/2013 18:24, clutton wrote: > On Mon, 2013-11-11 at 23:44 +0100, Koop Mast wrote: >> On 11/11/13 19:01, Eric Turgeon wrote: >>> Hi Kris, >>> >>> Mate is probably ready for porting. I just need to make sure that the last >>> update work well. >>> >>> >> >> It is on my plate, I just want to tackle one issue and then it should be >> ready. If I dedicate a night I might get it done. About gnome3 we >> managed to iron out some major problems with ajacoutot@ from OpenBSD >> pointing us in the right directions. Some smaller (and hopefull easier) >> problems still there, but in general it about commit ready. We just need >> to think up a way of dropping this in ports with the minimal amount of >> fuss (yes gnome2 will die at the same time). >> >> -Koop >> >>> On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 1:40 PM, Kris Moore wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>> On 11/10/2013 21:13, clutton wrote: >>>>> Recently I've seen a GhostBSD or whatever it calls. >>>>> It has the mate port, which works stable, and looks nice. >>>>> >>>>> It really works solid, what is the reason to not to merge mate port into >>>>> ports tree for so long time? >>>> >>>> +1 >>>> >>>> Do we have anything in the works to get ports of Mate, Gnome3 and others >>>> into the tree? >>>> > > Well done! I've realised now that not everything is working so good. > But it's better to have this here than in Marcus ports. > > The main problem now is other ports, which depend on gnome2, you know > libgnomeui, gnome-keyring. > > More people will help to resolve those problems, I hope. About gnome2, only the desktop ports are going away, ports like gnome-panel, gnome-session, gnome-desktop (or beter said updated to there 3.x version). I won't be touching libgnomeui and the like. And yes gnome-keyring is going to be a "issue" port that will need a solution. I just started to looking at ports that use gnome-panel and evolution-data-server. -Koop