From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Oct 2 1:56:57 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 74FA037B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:56:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D421543E42 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:56:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from gyros (gyros.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.9]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g928d7iv005481; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 04:39:07 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: GNOME 2.1 upgrade From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Marc Recht Cc: "Adriel Cardenas G." , gnome@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20021002104009.5a55baec.recht@contentmedia.de> References: <1033527725.295.11.camel@unxstar> <20021002104009.5a55baec.recht@contentmedia.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 02 Oct 2002 04:43:32 -0400 Message-Id: <1033548212.1085.1.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-3.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.41 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 Wed, 2002-10-02 at 04:40, Marc Recht wrote: > > I think we should stick with stable, there's a lot of questions (still) > > about installing 1.4 and upgrading to G2, I think that If we push it to > IMHO we should drop the older 1.4 ports. At least ones in GNOME_ONE_DESKTOP. To simplify things... This isn't going to happen anytime soon. We're shipping 4.7-RELEASE with 1.4.1 as the default GNOME desktop. The primary reasons being lack of fully working I18N and most GNOME 2 apps are still beta at best. > > > 2.1 it could get "messy". > > > > In the other hand, for people who likes living in the edge, it could be > > a -devel version like you mentioned. > IMHO they should be replaced with the "newer" ones, except gtk+ (and friends)... I think doing -devel versions is the way to go if 2.1 is put into the tree. The downside of this is that there will be one more version of GNOME to support. Joe > > Marc -- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message