Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:51:59 -0500 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Announcing GNOME 2.4.0 for FreeBSD Message-ID: <oprvcpgxvm8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <1063309044.702.36.camel@gyros> References: <1063309044.702.36.camel@gyros>
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On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:37:24 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > I am pleased to announce GNOME 2.4.0 is now available for FreeBSD. > Unfortunately, due to timing issues with 4.9-RELEASE, it will not make > it into the official ports tree until after 4.9 is released (looks like > early October right now). In the meantime, you can get to it from my > CVS tree at http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi. For those > without CVS access, I have periodic tarballs made, and are downloadable > from the same URL. You should also download the marcusmerge script to > aid in merging my ports tree with the official tree. If you already > have a copy of the script, download it again. Things have changed. > I would like to thank the entire GNOME team for their outstanding work > on the new features in GNOME 2.4.0 as well as their willingness to > incorporate so many FreeBSD-specific patches. I would also like to > thank our own FreeBSD GNOME team. Without adamw@ and bland@, GNOME > 2.4.0 would not be possible. And without GNOME team members both past > and present such as sobomax@, ade@, vanilla@, nakai@, and others I'm > sure I've missed, GNOME on FreeBSD would not be what it is today. Also, > thanks to our GNOME users and GNOME 2.3 testers. Without their > invaluable patches, bug reports, and nagging, I'm sure things would be > quite broken. > > For the official GNOME 2.4.0 release notes, feature list, and > screenshots, please see http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/. For all your > GNOME on FreeBSD needs, please see http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. Great, thanks guys!! Just want to add something in here too.. I would recommend anyone to do the 'pkg_delete -f bonobo-activation', before you do the upgrade from Gnome 2.[0,2] to 2.4.. Perhaps, Gnome team should add about it in the FAQ in website? Cheers, Mezz > Joe -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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