From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 12:24:27 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C13116A4B3; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.87]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69BB043FDF; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin07-en2 [10.13.10.152]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/MantshX 2.0) with ESMTP id h9FJOQ0Q000113; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:24:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mac.com (dpvc-68-161-244-25.ny325.east.verizon.net [68.161.244.25]) (authenticated bits=0)h9FJOOEQ016258; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:24:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:24:24 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: Joe Marcus Clarke From: Charles Swiger In-Reply-To: <1066244507.721.37.camel@gyros> Message-Id: <2F7A3BB4-FF45-11D7-881B-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: What to do with Mozilla X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:24:27 -0000 On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 03:01 PM, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:55, Charles Swiger wrote: >> Update www/mozilla to 1.5, but support 1.4 via a port named >> www/mozilla14 would provide backwards-compatibility in a fashion >> similar to other explicitly-versioned ports (squid, autoconf, python, >> etc). > > That's what mozilla-vendor used to be for. Why should we continue to > support 1.4.x? Do you have something that requires it? I don't have anything which requires Mozilla 1.4, no. I'm not sure we (you?) should continue to support 1.4.x. However, I see plenty of examples where multiple versions of a port are supported (for whatever reasons): 42-q% /bin/ls -d lang/python?? lang/gcc?? devel/automake?? devel/autoconf??? devel/autoconf213/ lang/gcc27/ lang/gcc34/ devel/autoconf253/ lang/gcc28/ lang/python15/ devel/autoconf257/ lang/gcc30/ lang/python20/ devel/automake14/ lang/gcc31/ lang/python21/ devel/automake15/ lang/gcc32/ lang/python22/ devel/automake17/ lang/gcc33/ ...and I find the name "www/mozilla14" to be more intuitive and descriptive than "www/mozilla-vendor", since the latter name I associate with Netscape-branding. YMMV, but thanks for your consideration. :-) -- -Chuck