HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16.1 has been committed

[Scott T. Hildreth]

Bravo, I know the team had to do a lot of work to get this in before
6.2,
so  great job everyone!


On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 05:42 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

> The FreeBSD GNOME Team is proud to announce that GNOME 2.16.1 has been
> imported into the ports tree in time for FreeBSD 6.2.  This is a first.
> Usually the GNOME release cycle has conflicted with the FreeBSD release
> cycle.  However, thanks to Kris and pointyhat, we were able to get the
> major patch tested.  Below is the commit message that accompanied this
> huge release.  In addition to the core GNOME ports, almost 500 ports
> were also touched to chase the GNOME move from X11BASE to LOCALBASE and
> fix build problems with the new freetype2.
> 
> "Presenting GNOME 2.16.1 for FreeBSD.  This release represents a massive
> amount of work by the FreeBSD GNOME Team and our testers.
> 
> On top of the usual GNOME update, we have taken this opportunity to move
> GNOME from X11BASE to LOCALBASE.  This means roughly 600 ports NOT part of
> the GNOME Desktop also need to be changed.  The bulk of the move was carried
> out by ahze, mezz, and pav, but it would not have been possible without
> cooperation from the FreeBSD KDE team who worked with us to make sure
> GNOME and KDE can still coexist happily.  We would also like to send a
> shout out to kris and pointyhat for putting up with multiple test runs
> until we got something that was solid.
> 
> Back to GNOME 2.16.  This release brings a huge amount of new functionality
> to FreeBSD.  The standard release notes can be read at
> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.16/ .  But on top of what you will read there,
> jylefort and marcus have completed work on a port of HAL to FreeBSD.  This
> will allow FreeBSD to take advantage of closer hardware interaction such
> as auto-mounting CD-ROMs, USB drives, and music players; auto-playing
> audio CDs; and managing laptop power consumption.
> 
> But where would this all be without our loyal testers and contributors?
> Therefore, the FreeBSD GNOME team would like to thank the following users:
> 
> Phillip Neumann <pneumann at gmail.com>
> tmclaugh
> mux
> Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com>
> chinsan
> Thomas <freebsdlists at bsdunix.ch>
> Brian Gruber <knightbg at yahoo.com>
> Franz Klammer <klammer at webonaut.com>
> Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves at gmail.com>
> Pascal Hofstee <caelian at gmail.com>
> Yasuda Keisuke <kysd at po.harenet.ne.jp>
> backyard <backyard1454-bsd at yahoo.com>
> Andris Raugulis <endrju at null.lv> <endrju at null.lv>
> Eric L. Chen <d9364104 at mail.nchu.edu.tw>
> Pawel Worach <pawel.worach at gmail.com>
> QuiRK on #freebsd-gnome
> Shane Bell <decept0 at gmail.com>
> luigi
> sajd on #freebsd-gnome
> sat
> Chris Coleman <chrisc at vmunix.com>
> kaeru on #freebsd-gnome
> crsd_ via irc.freenode.org/#FreeBSD-GNOME
> Joel Diaz <joeldiaz at mac.com>
> 
> Enjoy!"
> 
> Marcus on Behalf of the FreeBSD GNOME Team:
> 
> ahze
> bland
> jylefort
> kwm
> marcus
> mezz
> pav
> 

-- 
Scott T. Hildreth <shildret at fbsd1.dyndns.org>