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Announcing GNOME 2.4.0 for FreeBSD

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gooey-environments dept.

Dan writes "FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke says that GNOME 2.4.0 is now available for FreeBSD. Unfortunately, due to timing issues with FreeBSD 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 his CVS tree. For those without CVS access, he has periodic tarballs made, and are downloadable from the same URL. You should also download the marcusmerge script to aid in merging his ports tree with the official tree. If you already have a copy of the script, download it again because things have changed." Update: 09/18 15:25 GMT by M : FreeBSD's Joe Marcus Clarke says due to popular demand, but more importantly to the fact that 4.9-RELEASE has been pushed back at least two weeks, GNOME 2.40 has been merged into the ports tree.

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  1. It wasn't always that way. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    When GNOME was Miguel Icaza's baby the code was written in a non-standard and non portable way.

    Amazingly Miguel Icaza is considered a 'great coder', yet couldn't be bothered to write portable code.

    Once Miguel Icaza left the project, the GNOME code started to become portable and the project adopted a motto of 'it don't ship unless it runs on Solaris/FreeBSD and other UNIXes beyond GNU/Linux.'

    The real programmers took over and got the code portable.

  2. FreeBSD 5? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Does freebsd 5 use the same ports tree as the 4.x series?
    Does it support as many ports as 4.x?
    Will GNOME 2.4 be available in the next release of freebsd 5.x?