Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 15:46:54 -0700 From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> To: Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: yelp update ? Message-ID: <5913.1336690014@tristatelogic.com> In-Reply-To: <CADLFttfPnW=3FX7PtqCNUHqy7HYRucrBT9mD4TOySa0ntXhHBg@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <CADLFttfPnW=3FX7PtqCNUHqy7HYRucrBT9mD4TOySa0ntXhHBg@mail.gmail.com> , Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd@gmail.com> wrote: >On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette ><rfg@tristatelogic.com> wrote: >> >> >> Excuse me if this is an impertinent question, but could someone please tell >> me why the FreeBSD port of yelp has not been updated since Sept 28, 2010? > >Because it's latest version of GNOME 2.x. Regarding that assertion... What is in the ports tree is yelp version 2.30.2. But as you can see here: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/yelp/ There were several more 2.x.x versions after that, presumably all generally compatible with GNOME 2.x, specifically: 2.31.1 2.31.2 2.31.3 2.31.4 2.31.5 2.31.6 2.31.7 2.91.8 2.91.9 <==== fixes the %u issue 2.91.10 2.91.90 2.91.91 2.91.92 >You should ask GNOME folks why they stopped update the 2.x version. I am guessing that they would probably say that it was because they moved on to work on 3.x. No? >All of your reports in last a few days are already in the PR in a few >weeks ago with patch available. Before you ask me why I do not commit >it? You read my mind. :-) >Because I have GNOME 3 installed and I can't test GNOME 2 until I >uninstall GNOME 3 and test GNOME 2 to allow me to touch a lot of PRs. I understand your difficulty here. However I am inclined to ask if you have been laboring under this unfortunate impediment since circa Sept. 28, 2010. Well, in any event, to the extent that I can, I'd like to be of assistance. I do have a spare (older) Athlon XP system that I could probably afford to ship to you, if you are not too far away from me. (But it is _only_ the tower... no monitor, keybpard, or mouse.) And also, I have a couple of these things lying around that I'm not using (and a few that I am): http://www.amazon.com/Genica-Mobile-Rack-Removable-Black/dp/B000FA0W80/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1336689460&sr=1-2 Personally, I have found them to be very handy for developing on multiple playforms and/or under multiple environments. I probably could scrounge up a spare drive or two also. Please let me know if any of this stuff would be at all helpful. I do understand that it is difficult to develop stuff when you hare dealing with multiple versions of something that are constantly changing out from under you all of the time. Regards, rfg
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