yelp update ?

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 5:46 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette
<rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>
> In message <CADLFttfPnW=3FX7PtqCNUHqy7HYRucrBT9mD4TOySa0ntXhHBg at mail.gmail.com>
> , Jeremy Messenger <mezz.freebsd at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:40 AM, Ronald F. Guilmette
>><rfg at tristatelogic.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> Excuse me if this is an impertinent question, but could someone please tell
>>> me why the FreeBSD port of yelp has not been updated since Sept 28, 2010?
>>
>>Because it's latest version of GNOME 2.x.
>
> Regarding that assertion...
>
> What is in the ports tree is yelp version 2.30.2.  But as you can see here:
>
>   http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/yelp/
>
> There were several more 2.x.x versions after that, presumably all generally
> compatible with GNOME 2.x, specifically:
>
> 2.31.1
> 2.31.2
> 2.31.3
> 2.31.4
> 2.31.5
> 2.31.6
> 2.31.7
>
> 2.91.8
> 2.91.9   <==== fixes the %u issue
> 2.91.10
> 2.91.90
> 2.91.91
> 2.91.92

The odd number is a development version. Even number is a stable
version. Therefore, 2.30.2 is a latest version of 2.x.

http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/

>>You should ask GNOME folks why they stopped update the 2.x version.
>
> I am guessing that they would probably say that it was because they moved
> on to work on 3.x.  No?

Yep. MATE is trying to fork GNOME 2 and keep it alive.

http://mate-desktop.org/
http://wiki.mate-desktop.org/roadmap

I want to try to work on MATE in this summer. I am hoping to finish
GNOME 3.4.x in June.

>>All of your reports in last a few days are already in the PR in a few
>>weeks ago with patch available. Before you ask me why I do not commit
>>it?
>
> You read my mind.
> :-)
>
>>Because I have GNOME 3 installed and I can't test GNOME 2 until I
>>uninstall GNOME 3 and test GNOME 2 to allow me to touch a lot of PRs.
>
> I understand your difficulty here.  However I am inclined to ask if you
> have been laboring under this unfortunate impediment since circa Sept. 28,
> 2010.

Who care about the date? It is a latest stable version. We finally got
this bug report in 2012! It took about one and half year for anyone to
find this bug. It shows that how many people click on the help?

> Well, in any event, to the extent that I can, I'd like to be of assistance.
> I do have a spare (older) Athlon XP system that I could probably afford to
> ship to you, if you are not too far away from me.  (But it is _only_ the
> tower... no monitor, keybpard, or mouse.)  And also, I have a couple of
> these things lying around that I'm not using (and a few that I am):
>
> http://www.amazon.com/Genica-Mobile-Rack-Removable-Black/dp/B000FA0W80/ref=sr_1_2?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1336689460&sr=1-2
>
> Personally, I have found them to be very handy for developing on multiple
> playforms and/or under multiple environments.
>
> I probably could scrounge up a spare drive or two also.  Please let me know
> if any of this stuff would be at all helpful.
>
> I do understand that it is difficult to develop stuff when you hare dealing
> with multiple versions of something that are constantly changing out from
> under you all of the time.

Thanks for offer. But sorry, I do not allow anyone to donate me now
until I can actually work on FreeBSD much more like what I did two
years ago. What you did last a few days have 'donated' to me, so
thanks for find bug and submit patch!

BTW: freebsd-gnome@ and gnome@ are same. Removing one of it from CC.

Cheers,
Mezz


> Regards,
> rfg


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