From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Oct 2 1: 8:16 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 482B237B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:08:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.contentmedia.de (www.contentmedia.de [213.61.138.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC0A843E6E for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:08:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de) Received: (qmail 17358 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2002 08:05:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO leeloo.intern.geht.de) (217.227.199.22) by www.contentmedia.de with SMTP; 2 Oct 2002 08:05:04 -0000 Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:08:02 +0200 From: Marc Recht To: Joe Marcus Clarke , freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: GNOME 2.1 upgrade Message-Id: <20021002100802.58265995.marc@informatik.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.2claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 > 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? Gnome2 is far from being stable. For example look at gconf-editor. Gtk+2 and frieds (pango, atk, glib) are the only exceptions. So, why not go with gtk2-devel and replacing the rest, hoping that Gnome 2.2 stabelizes. Just my 0.02 EUR.. Marc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message