From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 25 19:42:38 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F80916A419; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:42:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from sdf.lonestar.org (mx.freeshell.ORG [192.94.73.19]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4BC213C4B0; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:42:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org) Received: from webmail.freeshell.org (IDENT:nobody@mx.freeshell.org [192.94.73.19]) by sdf.lonestar.org (8.14.1/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9PJMWfr027091; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:22:32 GMT Received: from w.meditech.com ([208.206.3.254]) (SquirrelMail authenticated user tmclaugh) by webmail.freeshell.org with HTTP; Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:22:32 -0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <33390.208.206.3.254.1193340152.squirrel@webmail.freeshell.org> In-Reply-To: <20071025151420.GA1451@hut.isi.edu> References: <1193281696.93212.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <47201113.7070901@gmail.com> <47201324.9030903@gmail.com> <1193284997.93212.28.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <4720194C.9000008@gmail.com> <47201D77.1050204@gmail.com> <1193287544.93212.33.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20071025151420.GA1451@hut.isi.edu> Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:22:32 -0000 (UTC) From: tmclaugh@sdf.lonestar.org To: "Ted Faber" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.9a MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users , ports@freebsd.org, Joe Marcus Clarke Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.20.1 available for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:42:38 -0000 > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 12:45:44AM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 00:37 -0400, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >> > > >> > > You will have to talk to the mono maintainer as we didn't touch >> > > lang/mono port at all. >> > >> > Not to be pushy but since gnome is one the most commonly installed >> ports >> > and mono is a required component shouldn't the responibility to make >> > sure that all dependancies (even ones that are not your problem >> > directly) build correctly? I keep two personal machines at home for FreeBSD work. One running 7 and one running 6 (currently down due to disk failure) and both have a tinderbox along with multiple jails on them. RELENG_7 only branched recently so I haven't even had much time to setup a FreeBSD 8 system. I'm not sure I will even have a FreeBSD 8 system anytime soon. I have no more free PCs at home and already need to purchase a new Linux box which I keep as a reference machine. I can scrap the FreeBSD 6 box and load FreeBSD 8 which I have thought about but that has its own issues. Do I drop testing on what will become a legacy branch soon even though it is still widely used? Mono's issues on FreeBSD have historically been thread related so do I want to drop the last branch with libpthread? If something breaks on a development branch it will get fixed but typically at a slower rate. My personal opinion is my resources are better spent making sure ports work on production branches rather than a development branch. People should expect breakage in a development branch. They should be able to expect things work and have been reasonably tested when using a production branch. >> We did a lot to verify GNOME builds correctly. Our tests were done >> mainly on 6.X and 7.X (as 8.X is still a fairly new version). Since >> you're running bleeding edge code, you may run into problems. You need >> to report problems to the proper maintainers, and be patient. > > Mono has an 8.x problem as well. I sent this patch to the maintainer > yesterday. It works for me, but I haven't heard back. Folks running > mono on -CURRENT are welcome to try it. > > > -- > Ted Faber > http://www.isi.edu/~faber PGP: > http://www.isi.edu/~faber/pubkeys.asc > Unexpected attachment on this mail? See > http://www.isi.edu/~faber/FAQ.html#SIG > Just committed the fix. Thanks Ted. tom -- | tmclaugh at sdf.lonestar.org tmclaugh at FreeBSD.org | | FreeBSD http://www.FreeBSD.org |