Gnome 2.6 on FreeBSD 4.8?

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Wed Apr 7 18:24:25 PDT 2004


On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 21:20, Frank Knobbe wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I noticed that Gnome 2.6 is not supported on FBSD 4.8. Has anyone tried
> running the upgrade script on 4.8 yet? What is the reason it is not
> supported? (Other than forcing folks to upgrade...) Are there any
> workarounds or hacks to get Gnome 2.6 play nicely with 4.8?

Mainly threading issues were causing problems, and there just wasn't
enough time nor desire to work through them.  Since 4.10 is right around
the corner, we decided to drop 4.8 support.

Joe

> 
> Thanks,
> Frank
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