Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 03:12:24 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> To: Jimmie James <jimmiejaz@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: HEADS UP: Dropping support for GNOME on FreeBSD 4.X Message-ID: <1116486744.97272.2.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> In-Reply-To: <7e148fb90505181751368fdad0@mail.gmail.com> References: <7e148fb90505181751368fdad0@mail.gmail.com>
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--=-XnF3Ks35UDm0gJa8e7MG Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 20:51 -0400, Jimmie James wrote: > <rant> > Great. :( >=20 > Unfortunatly, I can't update to 5.x untill I get a new system. I've > tried every 5.x release since about 4.4, and not one will install > here. If you can't get 4.4 to install on this machine, then there's no hope for GNOME. We only support GNOME 2.10 on 4.10 and higher. >=20 >=20 > >FreeBSD 4.X is dead, developmentwise.=20 > If "FreeBSD 4.X is dead", then why is it still being prompted on the site= ? > Wasn't there just a flurry of USB commits for the 4.x branch?=20 As a server, I still run 4.X on a few machines. As a desktop, however, I don't use it at all. There's just not enough hooks to make it very usable. >=20 > >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. >=20 > That says to me, when remote vuln's creap in, all the 4.x users are > going to be exploited, and there's nothing we'll be able to do, but > to lose out, or become part of a botnet. The security team will be supporting 4.X for a while. I am only speaking about GNOME on FreeBSD 4.X. >=20 > Considering E.O.L of 4.11 is January 31, 2007, I think this is unreasonab= le. As an OS, yes. Again, this is only regarding GNOME on 4.X. >=20 > >More and more ports break with GCC 2.x. > More and more ports have build depends of GCC 3.x, I don't see how GCC > 2.x factors into this choice. In general, these are the trivial problems to fix, but they are not the only problems as my original email outlined. Joe >=20 > </rant> <!--Sorry --> >=20 >=20 --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-XnF3Ks35UDm0gJa8e7MG 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) iD8DBQBCjDxYb2iPiv4Uz4cRAlfhAJ0Q5GMA+/iI19dH/W5YMFkmh+OGfgCdG407 8LKmKOCLqjgeUsgMAdh4Gh8= =yOzf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-XnF3Ks35UDm0gJa8e7MG--
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