From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 15 14: 2:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from phoenix.volant.org (dickson.phoenix.volant.org [205.179.79.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2026237B43C for ; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:02:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG) Received: from asimov.phoenix.volant.org ([205.179.79.65]) by phoenix.volant.org with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #8) id 14otfU-0000Zz-00; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:02:48 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by asimov.phoenix.volant.org (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id OAA28774; Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:01:37 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:01:37 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG Subject: Re: GNOME 1.4... To: Rahul Siddharthan Cc: ports@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20010415225337.C95991@lpt.ens.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 15-Apr-01 at 13:53, Rahul Siddharthan (rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) wrote: > There was an announcement some time back that FreeBSD would be > a supported GNOME platform, ie a release would ship only if it > compiled and ran properly on FreeBSD: > > http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1730 > > A little later, GNOME 1.4 was released: > http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/986330555/index_html > > To date, it doesn't seem to have appeared among the FreeBSD ports. > > What's the reason? Is it because it doesn't work on FreeBSD, or it's > not good enough yet? Actually, it seems that Ximian haven't upgraded > to 1.4 yet, either. There was a recent posting on this subject. Apparently, it would affect quite a few ports; and it is felt that this change is too big to occur so close to the FreeBSD 4.3 release. Once 4.3 has been nailed down, GNOME 1.4 shouldn't be too far behind. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message