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Date:      Fri, 06 Sep 2002 07:24:00 -0700
From:      Joe Kelsey <joek@mail.flyingcroc.net>
To:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   mozilla-current instead of mozilla-devel
Message-ID:  <3D78BA80.3080304@flyingcroc.net>

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I have no objections to allowing people a reasonable choice of what they 
want to support as the "official" mozilla release on their systems.  To 
this end, I think that we need three ports:  mozilla-stable, 
mozilla-current and mozilla with a knob to select which of -stable or 
-current the mozzilla port chooses.

I really worry that the -devel tag on mozilla 1.1 is completely 
incorrect as far as historical port usage goes.  So far, there is no 
indication that mozilla.org will ever actually do anything in the 1.0.x 
branch that is not directed by Netscape.  There is absolutely no word 
from the Galeon camp that they ever intend to commit to a particular 
mozilla branch.  What else depends on mozilla versioning?  Does nautilus 
care?  I know that java (i.e., jdk13) is agnostic about mozilla versioning.

So far as I can tell from the responses, there is more support for 
mozilla as pointing to mozilla1.1 than for it to continue to point to 
1.0.  I think there is an argument to make mozilla-embedded a completely 
separate entity, able to point to a different version and not tied to 
mozilla.  In fact, since Galeon1 *requires* a different version of 
mozilla-embedded, there seems to be a need to make this happen.  We have 
no idea what Galeon2 will require as far as Mozilla goes.

Should we declare the referendum over and remove mozilla-devel in favor 
of a better named port scheme?

/Joe


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