From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 5 02:18:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 226B21065693 for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 02:18:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from corky1951@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.27.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 082438FC1D for ; Thu, 5 Nov 2009 02:18:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.44]) by QMTA11.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 17xw1d0070x6nqcABEH4FS; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:17:04 +0000 Received: from comcast.net ([98.203.142.76]) by OMTA12.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 1EJb1d00B1f6R9u8YEJcLa; Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:18:37 +0000 Received: by comcast.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:18:34 -0800 Date: Wed, 4 Nov 2009 18:18:34 -0800 From: Charlie Kester To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20091105021833.GA88182@comcast.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20091007153059.GD69519@hades.panopticon> <20091104171424.6395298e@vixen42.vulpes> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091104171424.6395298e@vixen42.vulpes> X-Mailer: Mutt 1.5.20 X-Composer: VIM 7.2 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Subject: Re: glib/webkit update? X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:18:37 -0000 On Wed 04 Nov 2009 at 15:14:24 PST Zane C.B. wrote: >On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:10:47 -0500 >"Jeremy Messenger" wrote: > >> On Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:30:59 -0500, Dmitry Marakasov >> wrote: >> >> > Hi! >> > >> > I need a new version of webkit, because the one that is currently >> > in the ports tree doesn't work with Yahoo maps, and I need that >> > for astro/josm. I've tried to update webkit port locally to >> > r49078, but it requires newer glib: >> > >> > Requested 'glib-2.0 >= 2.21.3' but version of GLib is 2.20.5 >> > >> > Updating glib may require more effort and may break some of my >> > installed apps, so I ask here - is there official update planned >> > anytime soon, and/or is there some work in progress available to >> > test? >> >> GNOME 2.28 was released during our ports tree freeze time, so we >> weren't able to put into ports tree. If you can't wait, grab those >> in MarcusCom CVS[1]. >> >> [1] http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/ > >Actually if you don't mind me observing, this is a fairly bad reason >for it being out of date since atleast the beginnig of July. > >I've been waiting for this to be bumped for a while so >www/p5-Gtk2-Webkit can be updated. There are many many ports which depend on the Gnome libraries, so updating those libraries is probably a paradigm example of the kind of "sweeping change" described in the rules for the current partial thaw: http://blog.droso.org/2009/09/30/partial-ports-thaw-2/