Date: 10 Jan 2003 22:55:59 +1100 From: Matthew Gardiner <matgarnz@iprimus.com.au> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Updated Mozilla ports Message-ID: <1042199759.12477.2.camel@tchaikovsky.stpetersburg> In-Reply-To: <20030110091239.GA3529@straylight.oblivion.bg> References: <1042141239.469.23.camel@gyros> <1042185468.86719.3.camel@tchaikovsky.stpetersburg> <20030110091239.GA3529@straylight.oblivion.bg>
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On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 20:12, Peter Pentchev wrote: > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 06:57:49PM +1100, Matthew Gardiner wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 06:40, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > > I have completed updates to all the Mozilla ports. Until 5.0-RELEASE > > > comes out, diffs can be downloaded from > > > http://www.marcuscom.com/downloads/freeze/. Please send email to > > > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org if you run into any problems with the > > > updates. Thanks. > > > > > > Joe > > > > Interesting. I downloaded the Xft patch, applied it, now Xft doesn't > > compile for some reason. It isn't important anyway as the standard Xft > > works just fine. > > > > As for the patches, when does one expect them into the mainstream, that > > is, via cvsup? and has Mozilla 1.2.1 made it into FreeBSD 5.0? > > I believe Joe already answered that :) 'Until 5.0-RELEASE comes out...' > When the ports tree was first tagged for 5.0-RELEASE on January 3rd, the > portmgr team announced a partial thaw, but asked that large and > important collections of ports not be updated until 5.0-RELEASE is > *really* out. Apparently Joe considers Mozilla and the related ports to > be such large and important collections, especially if the Mozilla > update depends on updates to various other Gtk and GNOME ports - in the > thaw announcement, the portmgr team explicitly mentioned KDE and GNOME > as examples of groups of ports that should not really be updated unless > absolutely necessary. > > So... unfortunately, it seems that Mozilla-1.2.1 does not have much > chance of making it into 5.0-RELEASE, but it will be available very > shortly afterwards. > > Of course, take all of this with a big lump of salt: I am not on either > the portmgr or the freebsd-gnome teams, merely expressing my reading of > Joe's and portmgr's announcements :) Thank you for the update. I'm looking more forward to the release of GNOME 2.2 with some of the neat features that have been added. regards to GNOME, has anyone considered making a userfriendly front end to ppp ? I used /stand/sysinstall to setup my ppp connection, however, it would be nice to have something like that to allow the user to setup more connections or remove current ones. Matthew Gardiner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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