From owner-freebsd-gnome Tue Oct 1 16:13:49 2002 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 13DDB37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:13:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (smtp-1a.paradise.net.nz [202.0.32.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8229E43E42 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:13:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james.pole@paradise.net.nz) Received: from 203-79-103-139.tnt14.paradise.net.nz (203-79-103-139.tnt14.paradise.net.nz [203.79.103.139]) by smtp-1.paradise.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id B62DF827EA for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 11:13:45 +1200 (NZST) Subject: Re: GNOME 2.1 upgrade From: James Pole To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <1033513054.343.16.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.8 Date: 02 Oct 2002 11:13:15 +1200 Message-Id: <1033513996.379.7.camel@saturn> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 10:57, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > What do people think of upgrading the GNOME 2 components to the > just-released GNOME 2.1 versions? This is the development version that > will become GNOME 2.2. This will involve updating components such as > pango and gtk2. This may not be acceptable. > > Another alternative is to create -devel versions of the 2.1 components. > Of course, this will create pains when upgrading. It should be noted > that the 2.1 and upcoming 2.2 components will be _source and binary_ > compatible with the 2.0 components. I suggest we create -devel versions, so people can continue using the stable versions while developers can use the development versions. Most other ports follows this philosophy, so why not GNOME? - James To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message