GNOME 2.15.2 Development Release ================================ Some people commented that the 2.15.1 announce contained too many exclamation marks in only one sentence. Now, this is an important thing to fix. It's true (is it?!?) that we need (do we?!?) to write good announcements, that are readable by everyone. That's why I propose to write them in French, a language that everyone should know and that is really easy to learn (really, you just have to remember about some thousands of exceptions). Ceci n'est absolument pas une conspiration francophone. D'ailleurs, ni Frédéric, ni Sébastien, ni Daniel, ni quiconque d'autre n'est au courant. Je profite de cette annonce pour proposer d'utiliser le Français comme langue par défaut dans GNOME dès sa prochaine version, sauf opposition d'au moins une personne. On ne pourra pas dire que je n'ai pas essayé ;-)
This is our second development release on our road towards GNOME 2.16.0, which will be released in September 2006. GNOME 2.15.2 works well and you should definitely try it to see how well it works. So go download it. Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it, fix it. Note that both libxml2 and libxslt tarballs need a patch [1] and that the libxml2 tarball also needs a second patch [2]. [1] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.15.2/bug-340163.patch [2] http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.15.2/fix-python-path.patch To compile GNOME 2.15.2, you can use GARNOME (will be released soon), or the jhbuild modulesets available at: http://download.gnome.org/teams/releng/2.15.2/ The release notes that describe the changes between 2.15.1 and 2.15.2 are available. Go read them to learn all the goodness of this release: platform - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.15/2.15.2/NEWS desktop - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.15/2.15.2/NEWS admin - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.15/2.15.2/NEWS bindings - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.15/2.15.2/NEWS Here are some figures about this release: admin 2.15.2 statistics: tar.gz: 792K total tar.bz2: 616K total bindings 2.15.2 statistics: tar.gz: 24M total tar.bz2: 17M total desktop 2.15.2 statistics: tar.gz: 157M total tar.bz2: 114M total platform 2.15.2 statistics: tar.gz: 52M total tar.bz2: 36M total The GNOME 2.15.2 release is available here: platform sources - http://download.gnome.org/platform/2.15/2.15.2/ desktop sources - http://download.gnome.org/desktop/2.15/2.15.2/ admin sources - http://download.gnome.org/admin/2.15/2.15.2/ bindings sources - http://download.gnome.org/bindings/2.15/2.15.2/ 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. GNOME uses odd minor version numbers to indicate development status. For more informations about 2.15, the full schedule, the official module lists and the proposed modules list, please see our shiny 2.15 page: http://www.gnome.org/start/unstable/ We hope you'll love it, The GNOME Release Team Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- devel-announce-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/devel-announce-list
