Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 02:30:10 -0500 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Andrew Reilly <areilly@bigpond.net.au> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.28.1 now released for FreeBSD Message-ID: <1259566210.1659.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <20091129233628.GA91019@duncan.reilly.home> References: <1259439186.1608.70.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20091129233628.GA91019@duncan.reilly.home>
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--=-pYTXPD+ajIq7cneQG8Zy Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:36 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: > On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:13:06PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > Presenting GNOME 2.28.1 for FreeBSD. The official release notes for th= is > > release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.2= 8/ . > > Officially, this is mostly a polishing release in preparation for GNOME= 3.0 > > due in about a year. >=20 > Doesn't this sort of thing deserve a mention in > /usr/ports/UPDATING? At this time, there are no special instructions. Very few people read UPDATING anyway, and to simply mention a lot of ports changed, and to upgrade per usual doesn't make much sense. >=20 > Maybe it will all just build cleanly and run without config > changes, but it sounds fairly sweeping... Sweeping, yes, but not tricky. > I read in a GNOME blog, recently, that there are plans to make > HAL go away, to be replaced by something even more inscrutible? > That must make you all happy... DeviceKit. Yes, it's a pain. Hal may have been crappy in parts, but at least it was written to be somewhat portable. DevKit is very Linux-centric. We will see DevKit-power in GNOME 2.30, but probably not DevKit-disks unless someone does the work. Joe >=20 > Cheers and thanks again, >=20 --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-pYTXPD+ajIq7cneQG8Zy Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAksTdIAACgkQb2iPiv4Uz4eOvQCdGMUJVwyMIZwUpYZFYXl4/fU2 YjoAnAwt95ONAO6SYq7YJTXmp7pUwc00 =3bR4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-pYTXPD+ajIq7cneQG8Zy--
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