HEADS UP: GNOME 2.16.1 has been committed

[Scott T. Hildreth]

Is there an upgrade script or do we just do a portupgrade?


On Sat, 2006-10-14 at 10:52 -0500, Scott T. Hildreth wrote:

> 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
> > 


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Scott T. Hildreth <shild at sbcglobal.net>