From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 11 12:52:59 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D5CC16A4BF; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:52:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lakemtao05.cox.net (lakemtao05.cox.net [68.1.17.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1ED243FF2; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 12:52:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from mezz.mezzweb.com ([68.103.37.247]) by lakemtao05.cox.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.05 201-253-122-130-105-20030824) with ESMTP id <20030911195257.UAWT10592.lakemtao05.cox.net@mezz.mezzweb.com>; Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:52:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 14:51:59 -0500 To: Joe Marcus Clarke References: <1063309044.702.36.camel@gyros> From: Jeremy Messenger Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <1063309044.702.36.camel@gyros> User-Agent: Opera7.20/Linux M2 build 459 cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users Subject: Re: Announcing GNOME 2.4.0 for FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 19:52:59 -0000 On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:37:24 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > I am pleased to announce GNOME 2.4.0 is now available for FreeBSD. > Unfortunately, due to timing issues with 4.9-RELEASE, it will not make > it into the official ports tree until after 4.9 is released (looks like > early October right now). In the meantime, you can get to it from my > CVS tree at http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi. For those > without CVS access, I have periodic tarballs made, and are downloadable > from the same URL. You should also download the marcusmerge script to > aid in merging my ports tree with the official tree. If you already > have a copy of the script, download it again. Things have changed. > I would like to thank the entire GNOME team for their outstanding work > on the new features in GNOME 2.4.0 as well as their willingness to > incorporate so many FreeBSD-specific patches. I would also like to > thank our own FreeBSD GNOME team. Without adamw@ and bland@, GNOME > 2.4.0 would not be possible. And without GNOME team members both past > and present such as sobomax@, ade@, vanilla@, nakai@, and others I'm > sure I've missed, GNOME on FreeBSD would not be what it is today. Also, > thanks to our GNOME users and GNOME 2.3 testers. Without their > invaluable patches, bug reports, and nagging, I'm sure things would be > quite broken. > > For the official GNOME 2.4.0 release notes, feature list, and > screenshots, please see http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/. For all your > GNOME on FreeBSD needs, please see http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/. Great, thanks guys!! Just want to add something in here too.. I would recommend anyone to do the 'pkg_delete -f bonobo-activation', before you do the upgrade from Gnome 2.[0,2] to 2.4.. Perhaps, Gnome team should add about it in the FAQ in website? Cheers, Mezz > Joe -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.