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Date:      10 Jan 2003 12:08:59 -0500
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        Matthew Gardiner <matgarnz@iprimus.com.au>
Cc:        Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>, FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@freebsd.org>, ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Updated Mozilla ports
Message-ID:  <1042218539.358.4.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <1042199759.12477.2.camel@tchaikovsky.stpetersburg>
References:  <1042141239.469.23.camel@gyros> <1042185468.86719.3.camel@tchaikovsky.stpetersburg> <20030110091239.GA3529@straylight.oblivion.bg> <1042199759.12477.2.camel@tchaikovsky.stpetersburg>

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On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 06:55, Matthew Gardiner wrote:
> 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.

There has been discussion on the GNOME desktop list about reviving
gnome-network.  If this happens, a PPP frontend will be included.

Joe

> 
> Matthew Gardiner
> 
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