From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 9 20:42:35 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A105DE08 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 20:42:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kwm@rainbow-runner.nl) Received: from fep27.mx.upcmail.net (fep27.mx.upcmail.net [62.179.121.47]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3123C01 for ; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 20:42:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from edge04.upcmail.net ([192.168.13.239]) by viefep16-int.chello.at (InterMail vM.8.01.05.05 201-2260-151-110-20120111) with ESMTP id <20130109173156.YNUR29828.viefep16-int.chello.at@edge04.upcmail.net>; Wed, 9 Jan 2013 18:31:56 +0100 Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([178.84.132.32]) by edge04.upcmail.net with edge id ltXs1k00v0i5fp604tXtpl; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:31:56 +0100 X-SourceIP: 178.84.132.32 Message-ID: <50EDA989.401@rainbow-runner.nl> Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:31:53 +0100 From: Koop Mast User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kevin Oberman Subject: Re: GNOME 3 Support References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 130109-0, 09-01-2013), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Cc: eHitam Technologies , freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:42:35 -0000 On 9-1-2013 18:16, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 11:31 PM, eHitam Technologies > wrote: >> Hello! What is the condition of GNOME 3 on FreeBSD? I read of some 'hacks' >> like this- http://forums.pcbsd.org/showthread.php?t=14811 >> >> I am a 3 year Fedora and Ubuntu (GNOME 3) user. I have long addiction to >> GNOME 3. In FreeBSD only GNOME 2 is visibly available. Is there any way to >> get GNOME 3? Are hacks I just posted above are stable enough? Stability as >> I am a programmer and have important binaries and source code stored. I can >> recover source code easily as all backups are automatically stored at my >> remote server, but re compiling all the binaries and getting all the >> compilers to work again is a pain. > Gnome3 is available from the FreeBSD Gnome development repo on > marcuscom. Last report was that it was being held up awaiting the > release of FreeBSD 9.1, but that has now happened, so I expect thatit > will be committed to ports soon. > > For more information, like accessing the marcuscom repo, see > http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html The above is correct, however I can't give a ETA on when it will be committed since our package build and test servers are still offline from the security incident last year. The needed glib update for example will break some ports. And I don't want to break those and then getting a ton of bug reports of it because we didn't test. -Koop