Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2023 17:20:33 +0200 From: Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org> To: xfce@FreeBSD.org, ports@freebsd.org Subject: HEADS-UP: About www/midori browser (XFCE related) Message-ID: <33a6fa56-01fc-4ea1-b70e-4dd175cae2f0@FreeBSD.org>
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Hi all, As you may have noticed there is a new version of the Midori browser. This new version is an almost complete rewrite based on Gecko (it really looks like a fork of Firefox LTS, looking at the new source code), published by a new entity that acquired the project some time ago. [1] [2] I asked on the XFCE mailing list if there still was any connection between XFCE and the Midori project and they confirmed there is no such relation anymore [3] (this was already clear from the wikipedia page, but I wanted some confirmation). Based on this I am planning to put the port back i the pull of unmaintained ports, removing it from under the XFCE hat. If there are objections please state them in a reply. I'll also give a shot at a final update to a current version before removing it from xfce@ maintainership. But since this is a complete rewrite using gecko, it looks like a difficult update and I am not sure I can succeed by myself. Thanks in advance for any feedback! [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser) [2] https://astian.org/midori-browser/ [3] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2023-October/038165.html P.S. the new project maintainers still state that this is a "lightweight browser". Considering that it is based on Gecko, and that, in the current time frame, "light weight" is not really an option for a standard compliant browser, I'd really think they should drop that from the description. But, since they use it, in my attempt to update the port I will keep such wording in pkg-descr, although I tend to mildly disagree. -- Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>
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