Announcing GNOME 2.4.0 for FreeBSD

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Thu, 2003-09-11 at 15:51, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:37:24 -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus at FreeBSD.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> > I am pleased to announce GNOME 2.4.0 is now available for FreeBSD.
> > Unfortunately, due to timing issues with 4.9-RELEASE, it will not make
> > it into the official ports tree until after 4.9 is released (looks like
> > early October right now).  In the meantime, you can get to it from my
> > CVS tree at http://www.marcuscom.com:8080/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi.  For those
> > without CVS access, I have periodic tarballs made, and are downloadable
> > from the same URL.  You should also download the marcusmerge script to
> > aid in merging my ports tree with the official tree.  If you already
> > have a copy of the script, download it again.  Things have changed.
> > I would like to thank the entire GNOME team for their outstanding work
> > on the new features in GNOME 2.4.0 as well as their willingness to
> > incorporate so many FreeBSD-specific patches.  I would also like to
> > thank our own FreeBSD GNOME team.  Without adamw@ and bland@, GNOME
> > 2.4.0 would not be possible.  And without GNOME team members both past
> > and present such as sobomax@, ade@, vanilla@, nakai@, and others I'm
> > sure I've missed, GNOME on FreeBSD would not be what it is today.  Also,
> > thanks to our GNOME users and GNOME 2.3 testers.  Without their
> > invaluable patches, bug reports, and nagging, I'm sure things would be
> > quite broken.
> >
> > For the official GNOME 2.4.0 release notes, feature list, and
> > screenshots, please see http://www.gnome.org/start/2.4/.  For all your
> > GNOME on FreeBSD needs, please see http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/.
> 
> Great, thanks guys!!
> 
> Just want to add something in here too.. I would recommend anyone to do 
> the 'pkg_delete -f bonobo-activation', before you do the upgrade from 
> Gnome 2.[0,2] to 2.4.. Perhaps, Gnome team should add about it in the FAQ 
> in website?

I actually fixed this in the latest release of marcusmerge.  That's why
I recommend everyone downloads the script.

Joe

> 
> Cheers,
> Mezz
> 
> > Joe
-- 
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus at FreeBSD.org
gnome at FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome

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