From owner-freebsd-gnome Wed Oct 2 7:38:19 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 BB74637B401 for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:38:18 -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 A0C5643E6E for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 07:38:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [10.2.1.2] (vpn-client-2.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.2]) by creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g92EXTiv006701; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 10:33:29 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Subject: Re: GNOME 2.1 upgrade From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Marc Recht Cc: aztlanet@gmx.net, gnome@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <20021002104727.590f03a0.recht@contentmedia.de> References: <1033527725.295.11.camel@unxstar> <20021002104009.5a55baec.recht@contentmedia.de> <1033548212.1085.1.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20021002104727.590f03a0.recht@contentmedia.de> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 02 Oct 2002 10:37:57 -0400 Message-Id: <1033569477.333.3.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,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 04:47, Marc Recht wrote: > > 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 > Oh. Ok, then dropping 1.4.1 isn't that good idea.. :-) > > > of fully working I18N and most GNOME 2 apps are still beta at best. > Indeed. > > > 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. > But, as you mentioned yourself, GNOME2 is beta. So, why not replacing the components with "official" beta versions? The GNOME 2 desktop is _release_ stable quality. The applications that have been ported to GNOME 2 are still beta at best. 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