HEADS UP: GNOME 2.28.1 now released for FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 10:36 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 03:13:06PM -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> > Presenting GNOME 2.28.1 for FreeBSD.  The official release notes for this
> > release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ .
> > Officially, this is mostly a polishing release in preparation for GNOME 3.0
> > due in about a year.
> 
> Doesn't this sort of thing deserve a mention in
> /usr/ports/UPDATING?

At this time, there are no special instructions.  Very few people read
UPDATING anyway, and to simply mention a lot of ports changed, and to
upgrade per usual doesn't make much sense.

> 
> Maybe it will all just build cleanly and run without config
> changes, but it sounds fairly sweeping...

Sweeping, yes, but not tricky.

> I read in a GNOME blog, recently, that there are plans to make
> HAL go away, to be replaced by something even more inscrutible?
> That must make you all happy...

DeviceKit.  Yes, it's a pain.  Hal may have been crappy in parts, but at
least it was written to be somewhat portable.  DevKit is very
Linux-centric.  We will see DevKit-power in GNOME 2.30, but probably not
DevKit-disks unless someone does the work.

Joe

> 
> Cheers and thanks again,
> 


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