5 messages in org.freebsd.freebsd-gnomeHEADS UP: Dropping support for GNOME ...| From | Sent On | Attachments |
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| Joe Marcus Clarke | May 17, 2005 11:38 pm | |
| Jimmie James | May 18, 2005 5:51 pm | |
| Alexander Nedotsukov | May 18, 2005 9:07 pm | |
| Jeremy Messenger | May 18, 2005 9:40 pm | |
| Joe Marcus Clarke | May 19, 2005 12:12 am |
| Subject: | HEADS UP: Dropping support for GNOME on FreeBSD 4.X | |
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| From: | Joe Marcus Clarke (mar...@FreeBSD.org) | |
| Date: | May 19, 2005 12:12:12 am | |
| List: | org.freebsd.freebsd-gnome | |
On Wed, 2005-05-18 at 20:51 -0400, Jimmie James wrote:
<rant> Great. :(
Unfortunatly, I can't update to 5.x untill I get a new system. I've tried every 5.x release since about 4.4, and not one will install here.
If you can't get 4.4 to install on this machine, then there's no hope for GNOME. We only support GNOME 2.10 on 4.10 and higher.
FreeBSD 4.X is dead, developmentwise.
If "FreeBSD 4.X is dead", then why is it still being prompted on the site? Wasn't there just a flurry of USB commits for the 4.x branch?
As a server, I still run 4.X on a few machines. As a desktop, however, I don't use it at all. There's just not enough hooks to make it very usable.
Bug reports will be entertained on a per-port basis. Some ports may continue to see life on 4.X provided they build and are functional. This will be left up to the maintainer's discretion, of course.
That says to me, when remote vuln's creap in, all the 4.x users are going to be exploited, and there's nothing we'll be able to do, but to lose out, or become part of a botnet.
The security team will be supporting 4.X for a while. I am only speaking about GNOME on FreeBSD 4.X.
Considering E.O.L of 4.11 is January 31, 2007, I think this is unreasonable.
As an OS, yes. Again, this is only regarding GNOME on 4.X.
More and more ports break with GCC 2.x.
More and more ports have build depends of GCC 3.x, I don't see how GCC 2.x factors into this choice.
In general, these are the trivial problems to fix, but they are not the only problems as my original email outlined.
Joe
</rant> <!--Sorry -->
-- Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: gno...@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome