Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 20:08:33 +0900 From: Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users <gnome@FreeBSD.org>, ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP: GNOME 2.20.1 available for FreeBSD Message-ID: <1193396913.1288.17.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> In-Reply-To: <1193396708.1288.14.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr> References: <1193281696.93212.22.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1193396708.1288.14.camel@viola.izb.knu.ac.kr>
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On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 20:05 +0900, Byung-Hee HWANG wrote: > On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 23:08 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > > On behalf of the FreeBSD GNOME team, it is my great pleasure to announce > > that GNOME 2.20.1 has been merged into the FreeBSD ports tree. The > > official > > GNOME 2.20 release notes can be found at > > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ . Beyond that, this update > > includes the new GIMP 2.4 (courtesy of ahze). > > > > The GNOME 2.20 update also includes a huge change in the FreeBSD GNOME > > hierarchy. We are now using the more standard DATADIR of > > ${PREFIX}/share > > rather than ${PREFIX}/share/gnome. The result is that fewer patches and > > hacks are needed to port GNOME components to FreeBSD. This will mean > > some > > user changes may be required, so be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING for > > more details. > > > > Updates to the FreeBSD GNOME web site to document and announce these new > > changes are forthcoming. In the meantime, screenshots of GNOME 2.20 on > > FreeBSD can be found at http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/screenshots.html . > > > > This release and the things we accomplished in it would not have been > > possible without mezz's crazy idea to collapse DATADIR, and his > > persistence > > to make it happen successfully. Ahze and pav also deserve thanks for > > their work on porting modules and testing the whole ball of wax on > > pointyhat (respectively). > > > > The FreeBSD GNOME team would also like to thank our various testers and > > contributors: > > > > Yasuda Keisuke > > Frank Jahnke > > Pawel Worach > > Brian Gruber > > Franz Klammer > > Yuri Pankov > > Nick Barkas > > Cristian KLEIN > > Tony Maher > > Scot Hetzel > > Martin Matuska (mm) > > Benoit Dejean > > Martin Wilke (miwi) > > (And anyone else I may have missed) > > > > Joe > > After upgrade, i did re-compile some programs such as firefox, xchat > because the programs could not start up with unknown error. And i did > upgrade gnome2-lite except x11/gnome-system-monitor which was failed in > compiling. Aside from that everything is OK. Thank you for good efforts! ah.. sorry, there is typo;; x11/gnome-system-monitor -> sysutils/gnome-system-monitor sorry again, -- "Don Michael." -- Peter Clemenza, "Chapter 31", page 435
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