Date: Sat, 14 May 2005 15:39:17 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Summary of Adam's GNOME on BSD talk Message-ID: <1116099557.1389.10.camel@gyros>
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--=-DxrktljUBJd+0c3dPLNZ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. 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). 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> Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-DxrktljUBJd+0c3dPLNZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBChlPlb2iPiv4Uz4cRAs9gAJ99HnVDmgABJwm4y0KRi/ZhO+3hMgCeMtb7 V7gVD2xCLHvuLfZYKXCHTcc= =cFK3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-DxrktljUBJd+0c3dPLNZ--
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