Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 02:38:20 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: HEADS UP: Dropping support for GNOME on FreeBSD 4.X Message-ID: <1116398300.61797.46.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
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--=-Ux+Vl0uBchoipUk0+YcJ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Now that I have your attention, let me elaborate. By an overwhelming majority, the FreeBSD GNOME team has elected to drop support for GNOME on FreeBSD 4.X starting with GNOME 2.12 (including the 2.11 development snapshots). What does this mean? The GNOME Desktop will no longer be tested to build and run on FreeBSD 4.X machines. Bug reports concerning the GNOME Desktop will be summarily closed*. There will no longer be any Tinderbox packages built for GNOME on FreeBSD 4.X. Why have we come to this decision? FreeBSD 4.X is dead, development wise. There will never be another 4.X release. New library functions, APIs, etc. needed for some of the cutting-edge desktop features forthcoming in GNOME are not present (nor will ever be present) on FreeBSD 4.X. More and more ports break with GCC 2.x. Finally, FreeBSD 6.0 is right around the corner (it will be released before 5.5). By the time GNOME 2.12 is released, we will have at least FreeBSD 5.3, 5.4, and 6.0 as "stable" desktop releases (6.0 may be early adopter, but I have a feeling many people will migrate to it). What about GNOME 2.10? GNOME 2.10 will continue to be supported on FreeBSD 4.10, 4.11, and 4-STABLE until GNOME 2.12 is released on September 7, 2005 (release date subject to change). [*] Bug reports will be entertained on a per-port basis. Some ports may continue to see life on 4.X provided they build and are functional. This will be left up to the maintainer's discretion, of course. Joe --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-Ux+Vl0uBchoipUk0+YcJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBCiuLcb2iPiv4Uz4cRAjI/AKCLEFX3liqP4XxJYHiKsb/XiFynvQCgkTAc 6HpxagyzSnjXtqCCeIYDfrk= =AWo6 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Ux+Vl0uBchoipUk0+YcJ--
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