Date: 02 Oct 2002 02:04:15 +0200 From: Franz Klammer <klammer@webonaut.com> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME 2.1 upgrade Message-ID: <1033517055.976.91.camel@ncc-1701.webonaut.com> In-Reply-To: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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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
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