From owner-freebsd-gnome Sun May 12 20:29:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from gyros.marcuscom.com (rdu57-17-158.nc.rr.com [66.57.17.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4CEE37B407 for ; Sun, 12 May 2002 20:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by gyros.marcuscom.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4D3TC5K090953; Sun, 12 May 2002 23:29:13 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Subject: Re: GTK+-2.0.2 package description From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Lawrence Mayer dsg Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.5 Date: 12 May 2002 23:29:12 -0400 Message-Id: <1021260553.297.2.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> 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 Sun, 2002-05-12 at 22:53, Lawrence Mayer dsg wrote: > Hi, >=20 > 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." >=20 > But according to it's homepage www.gtk.org/download/ > "The current stable version of GTK+ is 2.0." >=20 > 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. >=20 > Of course, GNOME 2.x is still in beta. But that doesn't imply that GTK+ > 2.0.x is beta. >=20 > This is not an academic issue. A lot more than GNOME is based on GTK+. Fo= r > 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) >=20 > 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"? >=20 > 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? This is an old pkg-descr, and hasn't been updated when GTK 2.0 went gold. I have changed the last paragraph to read: "This version is binary incompatible with the previous release, GTK 1.2." If you'd like the pkg-descr to say something else, please let me know.=20 Else I'll commit this. Joe >=20 > 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 o= f > stable software (such as ROX-filer-1.3.0), which is already based on > GTK+-2.0. >=20 > I look forward to your reply. >=20 > Friendly Greetings, > Lawrence Mayer > Ume=E5, Sweden >=20 >=20 > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message >=20 >=20 --=20 PGP Key: http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-gnome" in the body of the message