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Date:      02 Oct 2002 11:13:15 +1200
From:      James Pole <james.pole@paradise.net.nz>
To:        freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: GNOME 2.1 upgrade
Message-ID:  <1033513996.379.7.camel@saturn>
In-Reply-To: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
References:  <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>

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On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:57, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> What do people think of upgrading the GNOME 2 components to the
> just-released GNOME 2.1 versions?  This is the development version that
> will become GNOME 2.2.  This will involve updating components such as
> pango and gtk2.  This may not be acceptable.
> 
> Another alternative is to create -devel versions of the 2.1 components. 
> Of course, this will create pains when upgrading.  It should be noted
> that the 2.1 and upcoming 2.2 components will be _source and binary_
> compatible with the 2.0 components.

I suggest we create -devel versions, so people can continue using the
stable versions while developers can use the development versions.

Most other ports follows this philosophy, so why not GNOME?

- James


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