HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16 coming soon

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

GNOME 2.15.92 (aka 2.16 Release Candidate 1) was released today, and the
FreeBSD port in the MarcusCom CVS repository
(http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html) has been updated as
well.  I'm not saying everyone should run and install this.  In fact, I
would caution against it unless you really know what you're in for.

Why?  Well, a lot has changed for the FreeBSD GNOME port.  On the hip,
cool side, we now offer a working port of HAL.  But that's not a reason
NOT to get GNOME 2.15.  The big reason is that we have [finally] decided
to switch PREFIXes from X11BASE to LOCALBASE.  What this means is that
all ports that depend on cairo need to be rebuilt (as well as a few
others).  It also currently means some conflicts with KDE.  So unless
you're really brave, it would probably be best to wait for the official
release when he hope to have a better set of [tested and safe] upgrade
instructions.

So why am I telling you all this?  Two reasons really.  One is, of
course, to warn you about what's coming.  The other is to solicit some
cool GNOME 2.16 screenshots from those already testing out GNOME 2.15
and have some creative juices.

Joe

P.S. GNOME 2.16 will most likely be released during the 6.2 ports
freeze.  But even if it isn't, we will probably not merge it right away
so we can do some QA after the release dust settles.  I'm thinking of
hosting an IRC testing and debugging party around that time for people
interested.
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team      ::      gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome
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