Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2002 02:59:52 -0600 From: Ade Lovett <ade@FreeBSD.org> To: <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>, <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Work on GNOME2 Message-ID: <B88B92A8.5527%ade@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <1013330639.260.25.camel@notebook>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On 02/10/02 02:43, "Maxim Sobolev" <sobomax@mail.ru> wrote: > I suspect that at least two people (Ade and Anders) independently > started some initial work on getting GNOME2 bits and pieces together for > FreeBSD and I wonder if the better approach would be to put ongoing work > into remotely accessible cvs repo. This approach played just fine when > we were working on FreeBSD/GNOME site and I think should also help in > this case by reducing duplicate efforts and drawing more resources to > the work. I'm not convinced about the need for a separate cvs repo for this, but I do think that we should be thinking about putting out an x11/gnome2 metaport based on the current tarballs as soon as possible, to get the new technology into the ports tree and available for experimentation by more advanced GNOME users (ie: those that don't mind trashing their systems). At the moment, I am in the process of setting up a sandboxed 4-STABLE environment for complete testing and development of gnome2/FreeBSD alongside the existing gnome metaport. I am not yet sure of the exact procedure that will be needed in terms of incorporating gnome2 into the tree in terms of repo-copies. Perhaps the time has come to agree upon an initial set of snapshot distfiles that we will use for x11/gnome2, then use those to develop the initial platform, with upgrades occuring after the initial x11/gnome2 metaport etc has been built and committed to the tree. For something as big as gnome2, I think we should be at least offering this directly to end-users, with the big red letter saying "if you want 'stable' GNOME, use 1.x, but feel free to try 2.x if you want to be famous", rather than a private cvs-repo. -aDe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?B88B92A8.5527%ade>