release can be found at http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.28/ .
Officially, this is mostly a polishing release in preparation for GNOME 3.0
due in about a year.
On the FreeBSD front, though, a lot went into this release. Major thanks
goes to kwm and avl who did a lot of the porting work for this release.
In particular, kwm brought in Evolution MAPI support for better Microsoft
Exchange integration. Avl made sure that the new gobject introspection
repository ports were nicely compartmentalized so that large dependencies
aren't brought in wholesale.
But, every GNOME team member (ahze, avl, bland, kwm, mezz, and myself)
contributed to this release.
Other major improvements include an updated HAL with better volume
probing code, ufsid integration, and support for volume names containing
spaces (big thanks to J.R. Oldroyd); a new WebKit; updated AbiWord;
an updated Gimp; and a preview of the new GNOME Shell project (thanks to
Pawel Worach).
The FreeBSD GNOME Team would like to that the following additional
contributors to this release whose patches and testing really helped
make it a success:
Andrius Morkunas
Dominique Goncalves
Eric L. Chen
J.R. Oldroyd
Joseph S. Atkinson
Li
Pawel Worach
Romain Tartière
Thomas Vogt
Yasuda Keisuke
Rui Paulo
Martin Wilke
(and an extra shout out to miwi and pav for pointyhat runs)
We would like to send this release out to Alexander Loginov (avl) in
hopes that he feels better soon.
PR: 136676
136967
138872 (obsolete with new epiphany-webkit)
139160
134737
139941
140097
140838
140929
Add upstream patch to fix a issue where abiword wouldn't detect older ms
word mail merge fields. [1]
Requested by: Michael Camden <camden DOT michael AT gmail DOT com> [1]
Obtained from: Abiword SVN [1]
dependencies. Do not complain to me for extra dependencies. Anyway, see
release notes:
http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/2.6.0.phtml
Addition details for abiword-plugins:
-Remove bz2abw plugins, no longer exists.
-Add MathView and OpenXML plugins.
-Add all --disable-* in there in case if they add autocheck.
GNOME 2.20 release notes can be found at
http://www.gnome.org/start/2.20/notes/en/ . Beyond that, this update
includes the new GIMP 2.4 (courtesy of ahze).
The GNOME 2.20 update also includes a huge change in the FreeBSD GNOME
hierarchy. We are now using the more standard DATADIR of ${PREFIX}/share
rather than ${PREFIX}/share/gnome. The result is that fewer patches and
hacks are needed to port GNOME components to FreeBSD. This will mean some
user changes may be required, so be sure to read /usr/ports/UPDATING for
more details.
This release and the things we accomplished in it would not have been
possible without mezz's crazy idea to collapse DATADIR, and his persistence
to make it happen successfully. Ahze and pav also deserve thanks for
their work on porting modules and testing the whole ball of wax on
pointyhat (respectively).
The FreeBSD GNOME team would also like to thank our various testers and
contributors:
Yasuda Keisuke
Frank Jahnke
Pawel Worach
Brian Gruber
Franz Klammer
Yuri Pankov
Nick Barkas
Cristian KLEIN
Tony Maher
Scot Hetzel
Martin Matuska (mm)
Benoit Dejean
Martin Wilke (miwi)
(And anyone else I may have missed)
PRs fixed in this release:
111272, 113470, 115995, 116338
http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/2.4.1.phtml
- Replace from pkg-install to plist by use '@exec /bin/mkdir -p...', it's
easier that way.
- Correct the plist for plugins by add '@unexec /bin/rmdir....true'
- Re-enable install the .server and .xml files for bonobo/ui stuff, only
happen if GNOME is enable (autocheck by libgnomeui).
- Add CONFLICTS with abiword(-plugins)-devel now.
- As for plugins, grammar-checker, OpenWriter and OpenDocument have been added.
http://www.abisource.com/release-notes/2.2.4.phtmlhttp://www.abisource.com/changelogs/2.2.4.phtml
As for abiword-plugins:
- the libwpd (WordPerfect) plugin has been disabled because the
textproc/libwpd needs to be update to 0.8.x. I will creating a
patch of update and bugging to the maintainer.
- Remove AbiGdkPixbuf, it has been moved to the mainline (abiword)
and is enable by default (core; not a plugin). Finally, they did it!
- Change from autogen.sh to configure; it works fine with tweaks.
- No longer wv check for the conflict, which it depends on textproc/wv
rather than the one include AbiWord's tarball. I have tested my Mom
and sister's docs from their work/school and they works fine with wv
port. I don't see any problem or slowdown.
- Force AbiWord to check/compile everything what apps that are
installed (headers, libraries, etc) from ports rather than check and
use the stuff that are included in tarball such as wv, zlib, libpng,
popt and etc. (Use external dependencies.)
- Improvement the autochecks and knobs of WITH_ENCHANT and WITH_ASPELL.
- Add the new WITHOUT_GTKSPELL knob to allow us not depend and install
either Aspell or Enchant, but the spell checker will be still enable
and dictionary will be install. The spell checker works fine in my
test so far.
- Add install the Help docs to fix the ports/66623 and add a new
WITHOUT_HELP_DOCS to disable the install Help docs.
Reviewed by: marcus and adamw
apps to bsd.gnomeng.mk. The goal is to make GNOME1 framework more modular,
which will allow to use GNOME1 apps with GNOME2 desktop as well as considerably
reduce langht of dependency chains for GNOME1 ports (for example after this
commit AbiWord's dependency chain was reduced by 7 ports from 57 to only
50, while Gnumeric's - from 60 to 53 and so on).
The most of the GNOME1 apps are still not converted, so that lot of work is
still ahead.
Please report any unusual problems to gnome@FreeBSD.org.
Discussed with: marcus
Reviewed by: marcus
