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Date:      Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:08:33 +0900
From:      Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr>
To:        Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.20.1 available for FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <1193396913.1288.17.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr>
In-Reply-To: <1193396708.1288.14.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr>
References:  <1193281696.93212.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1193396708.1288.14.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr>

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On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 20:05 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 23:08 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > On behalf of the FreeBSD GNOME team, it is my great pleasure to announce
> > that GNOME 2.20.1 has been merged into the FreeBSD ports tree.  The
> > official
> > GNOME 2.20 release notes can be found at
> > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ .  Beyond that, this update
> > includes the new GIMP 2.4 (courtesy of ahze).
> > 
> > The GNOME 2.20 update also includes a huge change in the FreeBSD GNOME
> > hierarchy.  We are now using the more standard DATADIR of
> > ${PREFIX}/share
> > rather than ${PREFIX}/share/gnome. The result is that fewer patches and
> > hacks are needed to port GNOME components to FreeBSD.  This will mean
> > some
> > user changes may be required, so be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING for
> > more details.
> > 
> > Updates to the FreeBSD GNOME web site to document and announce these new
> > changes are forthcoming.  In the meantime, screenshots of GNOME 2.20 on
> > FreeBSD can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/screenshots.html .
> > 
> > This release and the things we accomplished in it would not have been
> > possible without mezz's crazy idea to collapse DATADIR, and his
> > persistence
> > to make it happen successfully.  Ahze and pav also deserve thanks for
> > their work on porting modules and testing the whole ball of wax on
> > pointyhat (respectively).
> > 
> > The FreeBSD GNOME team would also like to thank our various testers and
> > contributors:
> > 
> > Yasuda Keisuke
> > Frank Jahnke
> > Pawel Worach
> > Brian Gruber
> > Franz Klammer
> > Yuri Pankov
> > Nick Barkas
> > Cristian KLEIN
> > Tony Maher
> > Scot Hetzel
> > Martin Matuska (mm)
> > Benoit Dejean
> > Martin Wilke (miwi)
> > (And anyone else I may have missed)
> > 
> > Joe
> 
> After upgrade, i did re-compile some programs such as firefox,  xchat
> because the programs could not start up with unknown error. And i did
> upgrade gnome2-lite except x11/gnome-system-monitor which was failed in
> compiling. Aside from that everything is OK. Thank you for good efforts!

ah.. sorry, there is typo;;
x11/gnome-system-monitor -> sysutils/gnome-system-monitor

sorry again,

-- 
"Don Michael."
		-- Peter Clemenza, "Chapter 31", page 435



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