Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:21:19 -0400 From: Jerry A! <jerry@thehutt.org> To: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> Cc: Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net>, freebsd-gnome <freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/42870: mozilla-devel should be updated to 1.2a Message-ID: <20020917192119.GA22546@nomad.thehutt.org> In-Reply-To: <1032289994.331.76.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> References: <3D8775E9.4050409@mail.flyingcroc.net> <1032287836.331.66.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <20020917184537.GA22391@nomad.thehutt.org> <1032288591.331.71.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com> <3D877DA3.6070003@mail.flyingcroc.net> <1032289994.331.76.camel@gyros.marcuscom.com>
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On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 03:13:14PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
:
: This then begs the question of should I make this change now so close to
: the release? I don't want things to ship out with a lot of popular
: pieces in a broken state. While people might not agree with the Mozilla
: naming scheme right now, the ports do function.
I would argue that the ports don't function to meet a user's
expectations. By-and-large, mozilla-1.1 is mozilla in the public's eye.
If they install that version (even if it's called mozilla-devel) and
then can't install plugins, then I believe that we're doing a
dis-service.
Regardless, it may be a non-real-issue(tm). If you go with the
advocated naming scheme, then mozilla-1.1 will work properly, with
plugins.
There will just need to be tweaks made for flashplugin and plugger.
Whether people feel comfortable waiting until after the ports freeze to
have correctly installed plugins for mozilla-devel and mozilla-vendor is
the question that should be asked.
--Jerry
Open-Source software isn't a matter of life or death...
...It's much more important than that!
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