In addition to building GTK3, they would also have to update glib2, glibc,
atk, and roughly a dozen or more additional packages to support just
building base GNOME 3.
It would be a monumental change leaving them with a distribution that was
no longer CentOS.
Just adding my $.02 in-case it helps.
On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 7:45 AM, Johnny Hughes <johnny@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 07/24/2013 06:44 AM, AJH wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > just a little question:
> >
> > Exists a way to update the Gnome 2.28.1 out of box at Centos 6.4 to a
> > Gnome 3?
> >
> > And if yes...how does this work?
> >
> > thanks a lot.
>
> There is no supported way to do this. This would not be easy to
> accomplish, but it would be theoretically possible. You would have to
> build gtk3 and then build all the gnome3 apps ... and then you would
> have to rebuild all the CentOS-6.4 packages that depend on any of the
> gnome2 development libraries with gnome3 as replacements.
>
> I would recommend that if you really MUST have gnome 3, you either use
> gnome2 now and wait for RHEL-7 to be released (then we will release
> CentOS-7 ... which will have gnome3) ... or that you instead use the
> latest Fedora as your desktop (You can get Fedora 19 now ... Fedora 18
> is also still supported for 6 or so months).
>
> Remember that base CentOS is not designed to have the latest and
> greatest packages, it is designed to be stable and provide support for
> the things it is released with for 10 years.
>
> That said, if there are a number of Developers out there who would be
> interested in building gnome3 for the CentOS-6 branch, we do Special
> Interest Groups to add things to CentOS. The Xen4CentOS project is an
> example of this. If enough people, who have the knowledge and skill to
> actually build gnome3 on CentOS-6, desire a new SIG to be created then
> that can be done. We would need some assurances that this SIG would be
> there for the long haul and they would have at least one person from the
> upstream Gnome Project in order to form. If such a group did want to
> form, the CentOS-Devel mailing list would be the place for it to happen.
>
> Thanks,
> Johnny Hughes
>
>
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