From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 22 19:15:50 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 299EE106568D; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:15:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mezz7@cox.net) Received: from eastrmmtao103.cox.net (eastrmmtao103.cox.net [68.230.240.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9434C8FC16; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eastrmimpo03.cox.net ([68.1.16.126]) by eastrmmtao103.cox.net (InterMail vM.8.00.01.00 201-2244-105-20090324) with ESMTP id <20090822191547.NLIT913.eastrmmtao103.cox.net@eastrmimpo03.cox.net>; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:15:47 -0400 Received: from localhost ([68.103.37.153]) by eastrmimpo03.cox.net with bizsmtp id XXFo1c0023JFCbG02XFomZ; Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:15:48 -0400 X-VR-Score: -210.00 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=Q4gPywEyPl8A:10 a=pGLkceISAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=pQs5aej7AAAA:8 a=nKsjC9ClAAAA:8 a=kviXuzpPAAAA:8 a=BF1iMjCA3M5T3kKjjXEA:9 a=N9Gx5AsdfP3EXD38koAA:7 a=jPBuqpCoR_kK88OgvkorP5EkbgwA:4 a=MSl-tDqOz04A:10 a=SV7veod9ZcQA:10 a=wD7v0anZblUA:10 a=4vB-4DCPJfMA:10 X-CM-Score: 0.00 Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:17:24 -0500 To: "matt donovan" From: "Jeremy Messenger" Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; delsp=yes; charset=utf-8 MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <20090822182208.GM82743@bsdcrew.de> <28283d910908221138r57fb86a7k6ce51f93ac5f170f@mail.gmail.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <28283d910908221138r57fb86a7k6ce51f93ac5f170f@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Opera Mail/9.64 (Linux) Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, gecko@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 19:15:50 -0000 On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:38:45 -0500, matt donovan wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Martin Wilke wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Howdy Guys, >> >> The FreeBSD Gecko Team will let you know what the plans for >> the future are and on what we are currently working. >> >> Goals: >> * Removal of mozilla, nvu, xulrunner and firefox2. >> * www/firefox35 should be moved to www/firefox. >> * The options USE_GECKO mozilla nvu xulrunner and firefox will be also >> removed. >> >> Background: >> We have a lot of old stuff on the portstree and it's time to cleanup >> old >> stuff. >> * www/mozilla is 5 year old now, no longer supported by upstream, >> and >> has many many vulnerabilities. We can use www/seamonkey. >> >> * www/nvu last official release was in 2005, no longer supported, >> and >> also some vulnerabilities. We have www/kompozer which also need an >> update to get this unbroken. >> >> * www/xulrunner is old and was replaced by www/libxul. We should not >> hold any old Gecko stuff. Also it's not longer supported by >> upstream: >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/XULRunner:Roadmap >> >> Problems which we have to solve: >> Some Gnome ports need www/firefox to build and work, but unfortunately >> firefox2 isn't longer supported by the Mozilla Foundation. Also >> www/firefox has a lot of vulnerabilities. We should www/firefox >> mark FORBIDDEN at this time gives no fixes for the latest securtiy >> reports. >> >> We see here 2 ways: >> 1) The Gnome Team (not the FreeBSD Gnome Team) take time and move >> all >> his >> stuff to libxul. I believe that all of our ports have libxul support. You can go ahead remove those. If we happen to miss one, we will find it. :-) >> 2) or we the FreeBSD Team have to remove all these ports. We know >> that's >> really hard but we should not hold vulnerabilities stuff. >> >> We hope to get here a bit help from the FreeBSD Gnome Team to make it >> possible to get some stuff to work with the current libxul version. >> >> Current Status: >> We working currently on Firefox 3.6 (alpha1) [2], Thunderbird 3.0 >> (beta3) [1], >> new libxul 1.9.1.2. All 3 are already committed to our repo. >> >> [1] a screenshot from tb3 under FreeBSD >> http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/tb3.0b3.png >> [2] a screenshot from ff36 under FreeBSD >> http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/ff36.png >> >> A current status can you find here: >> https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/freebsd-gecko/wiki/TODO >> >> >> So that's all at the moment, Feedback, Comments are welcome. >> >> - - Martin for the FreeBSD Gecko Team >> >> >> - -- >> >> +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ >> | PGP : 0xB1E6FCE9 | Jabber : miwi(at)BSDCrew.de | >> | Skype : splash_111 | Mail : miwi(at)FreeBSD.org | >> +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ >> | Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest! | >> +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkqQN08ACgkQdLJIhLHm/OlZ7wCgk6xG3ymevRMf1D/0e9LpEqZ4 >> vF8An200XdohvNq3nptL4NCBIom+vgPN >> =SlKU >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > I just have one question when has xulrunner been unsupported upstream > considering that xulrunner 1.9.1 was released when firefox 3.5.2 was teh > last release of xulrunner 1.9.x alpha was august 22end yes it's > development > but it's still supported. upstream The libxul is xulrunner 1.9x. Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org