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GNOME 2.8 Release Candidate 1 (2.7.92)

Submitted by stro on Wed, 2004-09-01 08:59. Gnome 2.x

Release Candidate 1 marks the start of our Hard Code Freeze, on the way
towards the final GNOME 2.8 release in a couple of weeks. The final lap!
Let's just hope we're not dragged off the track at the last minute by a
strangely dressed Irishman. Even though it almost sounds like fun... At
last, without further ado, RELEASE CANDIDATE ONE!

platform: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/platform/2.7/2.7.92/NEWS
tar.gz: 45M total
tar.bz2: 31M total

desktop: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/desktop/2.7/2.7.92/NEWS
tar.gz: 146M total
tar.bz2: 103M total

bindings: http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/bindings/2.7/2.7.92/NEWS
tar.gz: 13M total
tar.bz2: 8.1M total

Notes about the new MIME system
-------------------------------

As of GNOME 2.7.4, the old MIME system was replaced with a new shared
specification found on freedesktop.org. There are a couple comments to go
along with this:

* In order the to see any applications available, they must be registered
with the MIME system. This can be done by getting the latest verion of
desktop-file-utils and running:

update-desktop-database $PREFIX/applications

jhbuild in CVS has been modified to build this, and we expect
applications to do this on install automatically in the future.

* The new user interface is modeled after the proposal at:

http://www.gnome.org/~jrb/files/mime/

The old File Types capplet has been removed in favor of a nautilus-only
interface.

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
--------------------------

This release is a snapshot of development code. Although it is buildable and
usable, it is primarily intended for testing and hacking purposes. Like the
Linux kernel, GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development
status. Please check the 2.7 start page for more information:

http://www.gnome.org/start/2.7/

Happy testing!

- The GNOME Release Team

Re: It all seems too soon, not that I mind it...at ALL

Submitted by Anonymous George on Thu, 2004-09-02 03:16.

Now I for one REALLY do not mind this, however if I'm right, I'm afraid GNOME 2.8 would not be a big enough jump from 2.6

Heh. That's actually the thing I *like* about the Release Schedule. It seems to be smaller steps towards something good rather than massive changes all the time.

I, for one, am a little tired of hearing "this entire subystem has been rewritten from the ground-up to be more modular and extensible". Not that there's anything bad about making things more modular and extensible but rewriting things from scratch usually replaces known bugs with unknown ones. i.e. It leads to regressions.

I think it was important to go mental and rewrite a bunch of stuff from 1.4 to 2.0 but now things seem to have become good enough in Gnome that massive architectural changes aren't as necessary.

Cheers

Stor

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