17:13 tcberner 

devel/py-gobject3: udpate to 3.38.0

Submitted by:	Greg V (greg@unrelenting.technology) (original version)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D26630

 

09:03 jbeich 

devel/pygobject3-common: unbreak with DEFAULT_VERSIONS += python=3.8

>>> from gi.repository import GLib
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 991, in _find_and_load
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 975, in _find_and_load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 655, in _load_unlocked
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap>", line 618, in _load_backward_compatible
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/importer.py", line 146, in
load_module
    dynamic_module = load_overrides(introspection_module)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/overrides/__init__.py", line
125, in load_overrides
    override_mod = importlib.import_module(override_package_name)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/importlib/__init__.py", line 127, in
import_module
    return _bootstrap._gcd_import(name[level:], package, level)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/overrides/GLib.py", line 86,
in <module>
    class _VariantCreator(object):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/overrides/GLib.py", line 89,
in _VariantCreator
    'b': GLib.Variant.new_boolean,
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/gi/module.py", line 221, in
__getattr__
    wrapper = metaclass(name, bases, dict_)
TypeError: 'StructMeta' object is not iterable

Obtained from:	upstream

 

19:13 kwm 

The FreeBSD GNOME team proudly presents GNOME 3.16 for FreeBSD.

The offical GNOME 3.16 release notes can be found at
https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.16/

Upgrade instructions for port users:

Delete the old tracker package with:
# pkg delete -f tracker
And user port upgrade tool of choice to upgrade.

Thanks to Antoine Brodin for running the exp-runs.

This release was made possible by the following people:
  Gustau Perez
  Ting-Wei_Lan

PR:		201980

 

11:49 kwm 

The FreeBSD GNOME team proudly presents GNOME 3.14 and Cinnamon 2.2.
Gnome 3.14.1 and Cinnamon 2.2.16 are supported on FreeBSD 9.3-RELEASE and up.

This commit removes the old GNOME 2 desktop, bindings and some ports that
can't be compiled. A few ports where updated to more recent versions to
allow them to compile with this update.

Apart from updating ports to newer versions

GDM is more integrated with gnome-shell now, and handles several things for
the GNOME desktop such as screen locking. If you want to use GNOME 3 via
startx, you will have to add your own lock screen/screensaver. For example
xscreensaver
can be used for sessions started without GDM.

Shell Extensions can be installed via https://extensions.gnome.org/ , we have

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