From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Nov 6 07:00:55 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: gnome@freebsd.org 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 6EF7116A41F; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 07:00:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3019C43D45; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 07:00:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 4AA8A2AAA; Sun, 6 Nov 2005 01:00:54 -0600 (CST) Date: Sun, 6 Nov 2005 01:00:54 -0600 To: KIMURA Yasuhiro Message-ID: <20051106070054.GA24442@soaustin.net> References: <1131176568.3960.20.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <20051106.131413.122956532.yasu@utahime.org> <20051106.154938.00425730.yasu@utahime.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051106.154938.00425730.yasu@utahime.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: GNOME 2.12.1 has been merged into the ports tree X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 07:00:55 -0000 On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 03:49:38PM +0900, KIMURA Yasuhiro wrote: > But It is good time for me (and for other 4.x users probably) to > consider the migration from 4.x to 5.3 or 6.0 because one of most > major applications in ports tree has decided to stop support of 4.x. Yes, I believe this to be the case (except s/5.3/5.4/). > Now FreeBSD has 4 non-obsolete lines and it is hard for large and > complex applications to support all of them. So it will not be far in > the future that 2nd and 3rd ones will come. As I understand the next major release of the KDE libraries will also not be supported (at least by default) on 4.X. So that will be the next one. Fortunately, the degree of changes between 5.X, 6.X, and -CURRENT is relatively small. Unfortunately, the degree of changes between 4.X and 5.X was more signficant. But to summarize, the time of 4.X being the best choice for a desktop is drawing to a close. mcl