Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 04:53:51 +0200 (MET DST) From: Lawrence Mayer dsg <Lawrence.Mayer@dsg.ki.se> To: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: GTK+-2.0.2 package description Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0205130311420.17881-100000@mbox.ki.se>
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Hi, In the package description to your port of gtk+-2.0.2, you write: "Warning: this library is unstable development version, incompatible with version 1.2, so it could not be used as a replacement for the older one." But according to it's homepage www.gtk.org/download/ "The current stable version of GTK+ is 2.0." I have also scrutinized the Release Annoncements and Release Notes from GTK+-2.0.0, -2.0.1, and -2.0.2 and the Feb-May 2002 archives of the GTK+ development list mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list . But I can find no mention anywhere that GTK+-2.0.x is an "unstable" or "development" release. Of course, GNOME 2.x is still in beta. But that doesn't imply that GTK+ 2.0.x is beta. This is not an academic issue. A lot more than GNOME is based on GTK+. For example, the current stable release of ROX-filer, v1.3.0, is "Fully converted to Gtk+-2.0, plus much related code tidying." (http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=3D84548) But the FreeBSD port of ROX-filer (v1.2.0, which was based on GTK+-1.2) hasn't been updated to stable v1.3.0 (based on GTK+-2.0). Could that be because you have labled GTK+-2.0 "unstable development version"? What do you base that claim on? Are you sure it is correct? Can you explain why the GTK+ homepage says "The current stable version of GTK+ is 2.0."? Can you find any GTK+-project documentation which calls v2.0 an "unstable" or "development" version? If not, could you please revise your GTK+-2.0.2 package description as soon as possible? That way, it would be easier to justify FreeBSD ports of stable software (such as ROX-filer-1.3.0), which is already based on GTK+-2.0. I look forward to your reply. Friendly Greetings, Lawrence Mayer <lawmay@ki.se> Ume=E5, Sweden To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message
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