From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 19:11:49 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8A0916A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:11:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao02.cox.net (eastrmmtao02.cox.net [68.230.240.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5B443D55 for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 19:11:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by eastrmmtao02.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.05.02 201-2131-123-102-20050715) with ESMTP id <20050915191145.PWRP20229.eastrmmtao02.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 15:11:45 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:12:16 -0500 To: "Kiffin Gish" References: <005e01c5ba28$2ed6bb90$2201a8c0@ZGISH> From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <005e01c5ba28$2ed6bb90$2201a8c0@ZGISH> User-Agent: Opera M2/8.02 (Linux, build 1272) Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is Gnome 2.12 worth the hassle? X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 15 Sep 2005 19:11:49 -0000 On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 14:03:39 -0500, Kiffin Gish wrote: > I see that while the latest gnome desktop 2.12 is so-called 'ready' for > freebsd, it will not be included in the official ports directory until > freebsd 6. > > Is it worth the hassle trying to download it and getting it installed > despite possible headaches and frustrations or should I just be patient > and > wait for version 6? I only see an advantage of wait after FreeBSD 6 is that will allowing many third parties such as esclipe, ruby-gtk2/ruby-gnome2 and etc to catch up and release the tarball. I have no problem with GNOME 12 so far as I don't use esclipe and etc. It's only a few apps so far. If you are insteresting to help more on debug, feedback and etc, then install GNOME 2.12 right away and we will do our best to help you out. Cheers, Mezz > Thanks a lot in advance. -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org