Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2001 14:01:37 -0700 (PDT) From: patl@Phoenix.Volant.ORG To: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: GNOME 1.4... Message-ID: <ML-3.4.987368497.8065.patl@asimov.phoenix.volant.org> In-Reply-To: <20010415225337.C95991@lpt.ens.fr>
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On 15-Apr-01 at 13:53, Rahul Siddharthan (rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) wrote: > There was an announcement some time back that FreeBSD would be > a supported GNOME platform, ie a release would ship only if it > compiled and ran properly on FreeBSD: > > http://daily.daemonnews.org/view_story.php3?story_id=1730 > > A little later, GNOME 1.4 was released: > http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/986330555/index_html > > To date, it doesn't seem to have appeared among the FreeBSD ports. > > What's the reason? Is it because it doesn't work on FreeBSD, or it's > not good enough yet? Actually, it seems that Ximian haven't upgraded > to 1.4 yet, either. There was a recent posting on this subject. Apparently, it would affect quite a few ports; and it is felt that this change is too big to occur so close to the FreeBSD 4.3 release. Once 4.3 has been nailed down, GNOME 1.4 shouldn't be too far behind. -Pat To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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