HEADS UP: GNOME 2.12 available for FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

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Scott I. Remick wrote:
| On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:26:52 +0100, Alistair Sutton wrote:
|
|>As far as I understand it, the ports-stable module from Marcuscom is
|>there for when the ports tree is in a freeze and is used to hold
|>updates that will go into the tree as soon as the freeze ends.
|>
|>2.12 is still in the devel tree as it is such a big change and the
|>developers are waiting for 6.0 to get branched before integrating it.
|
|
| Ah... well see, I figured those two things were effectively one in the
| same here. The ports tree is "frozen" as far as letting Gnome 2.12 in,
| until FreeBSD 6.0 is released.
|
| I guess what I'm trying to get a handle on is whether it's safe for me to
| go to 2.12 :) If Marcus feels it works and it's essentially "done", he
| typically puts it into the "stable" module on his CVS repository. If 2.12
| is still in "devel" that'd make me think it's not quite done cooking and
| there's still work to be done. The other thing that makes me nervous is
| dependencies to other things in devel that could be in a raw, unstable
| state that end up being pulled in too as a result.
|
| Sorry to be so paranoid... this just seems different from past times when
| I could just pull in the "stable" module w/ marcusmerge and be done with
| it. Seems like this is just another form of "ports freeze" so I'm not
| clear on why 2.12 would still be in "devel" if Marcus really thinks it's
| ready...

Please re-read my announcement.  I addressed this directly.  I said to
read the devel FAQ on how to install, and that most of the development
warnings can be ignored for now.  We are not going to go through a move
from ports to ports-stable, then do it again after the slush ends.

Joe

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Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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