From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 14 13:46:03 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CE4816A41F for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:46:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-gnome@m.gmane.org) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A39C43D46 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:46:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-gnome@m.gmane.org) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EFXXA-0001fK-M4 for freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:42:44 +0200 Received: from 69-171-193-20.sbtnvt.adelphia.net ([69.171.193.20]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:42:44 +0200 Received: from scott by 69-171-193-20.sbtnvt.adelphia.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 14 Sep 2005 15:42:44 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org From: "Scott I. Remick" Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:37:46 -0400 Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <1126421475.56750.45.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-171-193-20.sbtnvt.adelphia.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table) X-Archive: encrypt Sender: news Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.12 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: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 13:46:03 -0000 On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:26:52 +0100, Alistair Sutton wrote: > > As far as I understand it, the ports-stable module from Marcuscom is > there for when the ports tree is in a freeze and is used to hold > updates that will go into the tree as soon as the freeze ends. > > 2.12 is still in the devel tree as it is such a big change and the > developers are waiting for 6.0 to get branched before integrating it. Ah... well see, I figured those two things were effectively one in the same here. The ports tree is "frozen" as far as letting Gnome 2.12 in, until FreeBSD 6.0 is released. I guess what I'm trying to get a handle on is whether it's safe for me to go to 2.12 :) If Marcus feels it works and it's essentially "done", he typically puts it into the "stable" module on his CVS repository. If 2.12 is still in "devel" that'd make me think it's not quite done cooking and there's still work to be done. The other thing that makes me nervous is dependencies to other things in devel that could be in a raw, unstable state that end up being pulled in too as a result. Sorry to be so paranoid... this just seems different from past times when I could just pull in the "stable" module w/ marcusmerge and be done with it. Seems like this is just another form of "ports freeze" so I'm not clear on why 2.12 would still be in "devel" if Marcus really thinks it's ready...