Speech Dispatcher is a device independent layer for speech synthesis,
developed with the goal of making the usage of speech synthesis easier
for application programmers. It takes care of most of the tasks
necessary to solve in speech enabled applications. What is a very high
level GUI library to graphics, Speech Dispatcher is to speech
synthesis.
PR: 142436
Submitted by: Alberto Villa
Tested by: myself
Approved by: miwi, tabthorpe (mentors implicit)
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
a bugfix, translation and maintenance update. Release note can be found
at http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.3.1.php
We would like to thank all our contributors and testers. My personal
thanks to miwi and makc for coaching me through my first KDE commit.
- rework KDE4_BUILDENV
All ports:
- remove needless post-extract target
- make patches relative to ${PATCH_WRKSRC}
- clean up
- bump PORTREVISION when required
databases/akonadi:
- replace dependency on boost-python-libs with boost-libs
(finally, boost-pyhton does not conflict with boost \o/)
deskutils/kdepim*:
- replace boost-python-libs with boost-libs
- reduce dependencies
- respect PREFIX
- fix build with qt3 installed
misc/kdeedu4:
- add dependency on astro/xplanet (for KStars)
misc/kdeutils4:
- add dependency on devel/qca (for okteta)
- make dependency on kdebase non-optional
multimedia/kdemultimedia4:
- add optional support for PulseAudio
x11/kdebase4:
- remove needless dependency on kdebase4-runtime
x11/kdebase4-runtime, x11/kdebase4-workspace
- remove extra CMAKE_ARGS to fix build for qt3/kde3 users
x11/kdelibs4
- remove needless dependencies
- remove extra CMAKE_ARGS to fix build for qt3/kde3 users
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.3.0 (Codename: "Caizen") release
notes can be found at:
http://kde.org/announcements/4.3/index.php.
We'd like to say thanks to all helpers and submitters.
Tested by: pointyhat-exp-run (pav/miwi)
-Update libtool and libltdl to 2.2.6a.
-Remove devel/libtool15 and devel/libltdl15.
-Fix ports build with libtool22/libltdl22.
-Bump ports that depend on libltdl22 due to shared library version change.
-Explain what to do update in the UPDATING.
It has been tested with GNOME2, XFCE4, KDE3, KDE4 and other many wm/desktop
and applications in the runtime.
With help: marcus and kwm
Pointyhat-exp: a few times by pav
Tested by: pgollucci, "Romain Tartière" <romain@blogreen.org>, and
a few MarcusCom CVS users. Also, I might have missed a few.
Repocopy by: marcus
Approved by: portmgr
Those ports are intended to be used with 8-CURRENT at least
with SVN r192206.
If you want to switch to linux-f10 ports, please define at /etc/make.conf:
OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f10
OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f10
An upgrading procedure is shown at /usr/ports/UPDATING, entries 20090401
and 20070327.
For the first time all tested linux ports work as expected(!):
. acroread8;
. google-earth;
. skype;
. seamonkey.
Many thanks for kernel folks who really did the main work
(and I wrote only some lines of ports).
There is a good chance that those ports may become a default
for 8.0-RELEASE. Please, test and report back to emulation@ ML.
See original release announcement for details:
http://kde.org/announcements/announce-4.2.3.php
New ports:
devel/kdebindings4:
Meta port of KDE bindings for C#, Java, PHP, Python and Ruby.
Currently only Python bindings are supported.
devel/kdebindings4-python, devel/kdebindings4-python-krosspython,
devel/kdebindings4-python-pykde4:
Python bindings for KDE.
print/kdeutils4-printer-applet:
printer-applet is a system tray utility. It shows current print jobs,
shows printer warnings and errors and shows when printers that have
been plugged in for the first time are being auto-configured by
hal-cups-utils. It replaces kjobviewer in KDE 3.
print/system-config-printer-kde
A port of Gnome system-config-printer to KDE.
http://library.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/2.26/ for a list of what's new.
On the FreeBSD front, we introduced a port of libxul 1.9 as an alternative
for Firefox 2.0 as a Gecko provider. Almost all of the Gecko consumers
can make use of this provider by setting:
WITH_GECKO=libxul
The GNOME 2.26 port was done by ahze, kwm, marcus, and mezz with
contributions by Joseph S. Atkinson, Peter Wemm, Eric L. Chen,
Martin Matuska, Craig Butler, and Pawel Worach.
The recommended version of FreeBSD to use them is 8-CURRENT.
FreeBSD-7.x is not fully compatible with compat.linux.osrelease
2.6.16. Some syscalls cannot be MFCed due to native FreeBSD
ABI breakage.
Usage (and package building):
1. define compat.linux.osrelease=2.6.16;
2. add following variables to /etc/make.conf:
. OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8;
. OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8.
Approved by: bsam (me) ;-)
multimedia/phonon port has been split into phonon itself, phonon-xine
and phono-gstreamer backends. After updating phonon port you have
to install at least one backend. phonon-xine backend is recommended
for KDE.
for FreeBSD. The official KDE 4.2.0 (Codename: "The Answer") release
notes can be found at:
http://kde.org/announcements/4.2/index.php.
New supported languages include Arabic, Icelandic, Basque,
Hebrew, Romanian, Tajik and several Indian languages (Bengali India,
Gujarati, Kannada, Maithili, Marathi) indicating a rise in popularity in
this part of Asia.
New ports for KDE 4.2.0:
arabic/kde4-l10n Arabic
hebrew/kde4-l10n Hebrew
misc/kde4-l10n-bn_IN Bengali (India)
misc/kde4-l10n-eu Basque
misc/kde4-l10n-gu Gujarati
misc/kde4-l10n-is Icelandic
misc/kde4-l10n-kn Kannada
misc/kde4-l10n-mai Maithili
misc/kde4-l10n-mr Marathi
misc/kde4-l10n-ro Romanian
misc/kde4-l10n-tg Tajik
math/eigen2 Lightweight library for vector and matrix math
graphics/kipi-plugins-kde4 KDE4 kipi graphics plugins
sysutils/policykit-kde PolicyKit manager for KDE
Unfortunately FreeBSD 6.4 support is dropped.
We'd like to say thanks for feedback and help to:
Matt Tosto, Kris Moore, stickibit, David Johnson, Markus Brueffer,
David Naylor, Thomas Schlesinger, Warren Liddell, Thomas Abthorpe,
Diego Depaoli, Mats Andreassen, portmgr for exp-run and repocopies.
