Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:05:08 +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: <1193396708.1288.14.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <1193281696.93212.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> References: <1193281696.93212.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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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! Byung-Hee -- "Did you do the job on Sollozzo?" "Both of them." "Sure?" "I saw their brains." -- Tessio and Michael Corleone, "Chapter 11", page 151
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