From owner-freebsd-gnome Tue Oct 1 17: 4: 8 2002 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 0DD9737B401; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:04:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ncc-1701.webonaut.com (static62-99-136-018.adsl.inode.at [62.99.136.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E081643E3B; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 17:04:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from klammer@webonaut.com) Received: from quikquik (quikquik [127.0.0.1]) by ncc-1701.webonaut.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F286FB0F; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 02:04:15 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: GNOME 2.1 upgrade From: Franz Klammer To: Joe Marcus Clarke Cc: gnome@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 02 Oct 2002 02:04:15 +0200 Message-Id: <1033517055.976.91.camel@ncc-1701.webonaut.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Am Mi, 2002-10-02 um 00.57 schrieb Joe Marcus Clarke: > 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. > > Thoughts? my opinion: gnome ports without -devel should only install stable versions from the latest release. maybee it's a _very silly_ idea but why didn't you work with a USE_UNSTABLE knob? if USE_UNSTABLE is set then the 2.1-versions will be installed. with this, i think, you can avoid the update-pains and it's easy to switch over to 2.2 or go back to 2.0. franz -- WEBONAUT.com http://webonaut.com mailto:klammer@webonaut.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message