i3 maintainer for FreeBSD

[Chris Rees]

On 26 Dec 2012 03:31, "Kevin Oberman" <kob6558 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 3:39 PM, Herbert J. Skuhra <hskuhra at eumx.net>
wrote:
> > On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 21:39:49 -0000
> > sib at tormail.org wrote:
> >
> >> Hello list.
> >>
> >> I'm an i3 user on FreeBSD, and really love the WM. I think we need a
new
> >> maintainer for the port(1) in FreeBSD, though, because current one
doesn't
> >> ever update it and ignores my mails. 4.4 has been out a little while,
but
> >> we only have 4.2. I'd like to follow the latest versions. Can anyone
> >> volunteer to become the new maintainer? Sorry for my english.
> >
> > Have you made any attempt to build i3-4.3 and i3-4.4 yourself?
> > The file DEPENDS in i3 release >= 4.3  lists:
> >
> > pango       │ 1.30.0 | 1.30.0 │ http://www.pango.org/
> > cairo       │ 1.12.2 │ 1.12.2 │ http://cairographics.org/
> >
> > There is only pango 1.28.4 and cairo 1.10.2 in ports.
> >
> > So, there is obviously a good reason why the port hasn't been updated
> > yet!?
>
> These are maintained by gnome at . They are planee to be updated to
> current version as a part of the Gnome update after 9.1 is released.
> You might get more current information by asking gnome at .

The Gnome team is working hard on updates, including GTK 3.  These are big
changes, but there are loads of ports that will work properly again (such
as Transmission).

Patience!

Chris