From owner-freebsd-gnome Fri Jan 10 9: 9:21 2003 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 98B5437B401; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:09:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8404543F5F; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 09:09:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0AH94TP009678; Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:09:05 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: Updated Mozilla ports From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Matthew Gardiner Cc: Peter Pentchev , FreeBSD GNOME Users , ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1042199759.12477.2.camel@tchaikovsky.stpetersburg> References: <1042141239.469.23.camel@gyros> <1042185468.86719.3.camel@tchaikovsky.stpetersburg> <20030110091239.GA3529@straylight.oblivion.bg> <1042199759.12477.2.camel@tchaikovsky.stpetersburg> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1042218539.358.4.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.0 Date: 10 Jan 2003 12:08:59 -0500 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,NOSPAM_INC,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES, SPAM_PHRASE_01_02,TO_BE_REMOVED_REPLY version=2.43 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 06:55, Matthew Gardiner wrote: > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 20:12, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 06:57:49PM +1100, Matthew Gardiner wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 06:40, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > > I have completed updates to all the Mozilla ports. Until 5.0-RELEASE > > > > comes out, diffs can be downloaded from > > > > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/freeze/. Please send email to > > > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org if you run into any problems with the > > > > updates. Thanks. > > > > > > > > Joe > > > > > > Interesting. I downloaded the Xft patch, applied it, now Xft doesn't > > > compile for some reason. It isn't important anyway as the standard Xft > > > works just fine. > > > > > > As for the patches, when does one expect them into the mainstream, that > > > is, via cvsup? and has Mozilla 1.2.1 made it into FreeBSD 5.0? > > > > I believe Joe already answered that :) 'Until 5.0-RELEASE comes out...' > > When the ports tree was first tagged for 5.0-RELEASE on January 3rd, the > > portmgr team announced a partial thaw, but asked that large and > > important collections of ports not be updated until 5.0-RELEASE is > > *really* out. Apparently Joe considers Mozilla and the related ports to > > be such large and important collections, especially if the Mozilla > > update depends on updates to various other Gtk and GNOME ports - in the > > thaw announcement, the portmgr team explicitly mentioned KDE and GNOME > > as examples of groups of ports that should not really be updated unless > > absolutely necessary. > > > > So... unfortunately, it seems that Mozilla-1.2.1 does not have much > > chance of making it into 5.0-RELEASE, but it will be available very > > shortly afterwards. > > > > Of course, take all of this with a big lump of salt: I am not on either > > the portmgr or the freebsd-gnome teams, merely expressing my reading of > > Joe's and portmgr's announcements :) > > Thank you for the update. I'm looking more forward to the release of > GNOME 2.2 with some of the neat features that have been added. > > regards to GNOME, has anyone considered making a userfriendly front end > to ppp ? I used /stand/sysinstall to setup my ppp connection, however, > it would be nice to have something like that to allow the user to setup > more connections or remove current ones. There has been discussion on the GNOME desktop list about reviving gnome-network. If this happens, a PPP frontend will be included. Joe > > Matthew Gardiner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message