From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 16 06:51:19 2005 Return-Path: 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 3B86416A4CE; Mon, 16 May 2005 06:51:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from lakermmtao01.cox.net (lakermmtao01.cox.net [68.230.240.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7465343D83; Mon, 16 May 2005 06:51:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.32.140]) by lakermmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.04.00 201-2131-118-20041027) with ESMTP id <20050516065116.LLPJ11036.lakermmtao01.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Mon, 16 May 2005 02:51:16 -0400 To: "Joe Marcus Clarke" References: <1116099557.1389.10.camel@gyros> Message-ID: Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 01:52:26 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera M2/8.0 (Linux, build 1095) cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: Summary of Adam's GNOME on BSD talk X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 06:51:19 -0000 On Sun, 15 May 2005 13:45:17 -0500, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005 14:39:17 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke > wrote: > >> Adam Weinberger (adamw@) gave a talk entitled, "GNOME on BSD" at BSDCan >> 2005 yesterday. The talk started right on the dot at 1400 EDT, and was >> attended by approximately seven people (people came and went during the >> talk). The most notable attendee was D'Arcy J.M. Cain who works on the >> pkgsrc system for NetBSD. Hopefully Adam will make the presentation >> available in some form soon, so I won't summarize the presentation. >> >> There were a few questions at the end of the presentation. >> >> What is the current state of mono on FreeBSD? I answered that BSD# will >> have a working version of mono 1.1.7 in the tree in about a week or so. > > Right and if there are lesser than three or two offical ports that will > not work with Mono 1.1.7, then we will mark them as broke for a while > until they update to get work with Mono 1.1.7. It's no big deal, because > there are more C# apps that are already work better with Mono 1.1.7 on > FreeBSD than what we have in offical ports tree. Well, it went in offical ports tree much early than we thought because the things went smooth so far. Have fun with Mono 1.1.7 and two new ports, tomboy and f-spot. One last thing is that I will need to resquest for repocopy of gtk-sharp-devel, which is what update of munie will need it. Cheers, Mezz >> When we move to GNOME 3.0, how long will GNOME 2.x be supported? Adam >> responded that GNOME 3.0 is still in the distant future. We will see >> GNOME 2.12 and 2.14 before 3.0 comes out. Once that happens, it really >> depends on how quickly users migrate to the new platform. If it's >> really quick, we will abandon the 2.x desktop quickly as well. However, >> we will still maintain 2.x libraries for a long time to come (as is >> being done for GNOME 1.4). > > adamw, do you still want to change the name (foobar2 -> foobar) if there > is no two of it? > >> D'Arcy asked what problems NetBSD faces with GNOME minor updates (e.g. >> GNOME 2.8 to 2.10). Adam mentioned the dependency changes that can >> occur in a minor update (e.g. port A now depends on port B when it did >> not before, or port A now installs files previously installed by port >> B). He also mentioned that NetBSD's ``make update'' would handle most >> of the dependency problems, and gnome_upgrade.sh could probably be >> ported to NetBSD to solve any remaining problems. >> >> I wish more people would have attended. I really feel we've >> done a tremendous job with GNOME on FreeBSD, and Adam did one hell of a >> presentation. > > Thanks for do the summary, marcus! adamw just has posted his > presentation, I will check it out. > > Cheers, > Mezz > >> Joe -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org