Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:59:39 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au> To: Peter Thoenen <eol1@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox 2.0 Message-ID: <20061026075939.GC917@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20061026014934.91554.qmail@web51904.mail.yahoo.com> References: <b2203fed0610250516m63d1df21ncf6d8936cd96cb31@mail.gmail.com> <20061026014934.91554.qmail@web51904.mail.yahoo.com>
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--TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-Oct-25 18:49:34 -0700, Peter Thoenen wrote: >> Sorry, but the Firefox 2.0 release was too late to be included in >> FreeBSD 6.2. > >Is it really that late? Firefox is something new uesrs look for / >expect and it has a large enough view that we might want to think about >including it. Similar requests occur just before every release. FreeBSD has nearly 16,000 ports at present. If the Project delayed its releases to include the latest version of every port that was upgraded just after the cutoff then the release would never occur. The Project has made a decision to draw a line in the sand and only move it for critical issues (if there was a major security hole reported in an important port then things might get delayed to include a fix). There are over 200 other ports that have Firefox listed as a dependency. Firefox 2.0 is presumably a major upgrade compared to Firefox 1.5 and it's highly likely that the upgrade would adversely impact at least one of those other ports - necessitating more last minute fixes. --=20 Peter Jeremy --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFQGrr/opHv/APuIcRAg5YAJ4u8OTH8PD5xqUY9BANbCKAK1bR+ACcCcqW 3GN+c9S2tSWnMNdCpQrZ0nM= =t+q5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc--
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