Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 00:14:42 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: iijima yoshino <iijimayoshino@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, Luca Ferrari <fluca1978@infinito.it> Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD doesn't have a Gnome3 port? Message-ID: <CAJ-VmonJw3Uh9wqjhBfV3MYxp34FzzhApQZBMO4dET5mR0Ff4A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1386336219.4592.25.camel@debian> References: <1386221592.4385.16.camel@debian> <CAKoxK%2B61HZPLR_xM7BC12dHc3y4eHPDCEvsRC8oQ_Jm1wUovnQ@mail.gmail.com> <1386253808.8359.5.camel@debian> <CAKoxK%2B6=CdtntMJ-MRe9AqmmRcHM3EN_5HqUOYHEA1NvFRmcjw@mail.gmail.com> <1386328855.3871.38.camel@debian> <CAKoxK%2B45AqKWFqzmTmRzhS%2BiL1AuQT0sJ=p-Gu6tm2C=FbieHQ@mail.gmail.com> <1386336219.4592.25.camel@debian>
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... wow, there's a lot of hand-waving and speculation. Did anyone think to ask on x11@freebsd.org ? The xorg team is busy being as careful as possible in getting the new xorg / dri2 support enabled by default. Once that happens, please test it out. Thoroughly. Once that's all tested out, I think the plan is to import updated versions of things that are required in order to bring over the gtk updates and gnome3. -a On 6 December 2013 05:23, iijima yoshino <iijimayoshino@gmail.com> wrote: > =E5=9C=A8 2013-12-06=E4=BA=94=E7=9A=84 13:36 +0100=EF=BC=8CLuca Ferrari= =E5=86=99=E9=81=93=EF=BC=9A >> On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM, iijima yoshino <iijimayoshino@gmail.com= > wrote: >> > And we could not request every developer to >> > put the portability No.1 when they try to write something. If I consid= er >> > about Linux/BSD, why don't Win/Mac/Solaries/Minix/Haiku/MenutOS... We = do >> > everything for ourselves, then the others. >> >> With regard to the specific question, gnome3, I believe we are not >> asking developers to keep portability as their number one issue. They >> simply have broken portability by themselves. Gnome was used as the >> main desktop on OpenSolaris, that is not Linux. But deciding to got >> for a Linux-tied subsystem they have deliberately chosen not to be >> portable. Is this right or wrong? I don't care, but we cannot ask >> FreeBSD (or any other OS) developers to port gnome3 when the gnome >> community itself has decided to break. Of course, is there is >> interest, someone will port. >> >> Luca > > Yeah,it's not a "right or wrong" problem, as "to be or not to be". > OpenBSD 5.4 supports Gnome 3.8 and PCBSD 10 will take Gnome3/Cinnamon > replacing Gnome2. > In fact, the FreeBSD can do but not do, Why? > Different philosophy? Bad compatibility? Dependencies conflict? No > interest? Something else? > Whatever the reason is, having an "evil" gnome3 port would never boom > the machine. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg"
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