Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 17:03:44 -0700 From: Adam Weinberger <adamw@magnesium.net> To: Michael Johnson <ahze@ahze.net> Cc: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org, jannisan@t-online.de Subject: Re: Port upgrade: www/firefox. Added GUI selection support Message-ID: <42B0C1E0.8070800@magnesium.net> In-Reply-To: <28921A19-8ED3-4DC3-92B2-DB68720D5DC8@ahze.net> References: <E1DiSSt-00032x-8Z@rochel.dyndns.org> <42AFE0C9.30201@pacific.net.sg> <op.sselu5wf9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <42AFF04D.7090506@pacific.net.sg> <op.sseouu0o9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <42AFFDA0.5080007@pacific.net.sg> <op.ssfcaeqm9aq2h7@mezz.mezzweb.com> <2DB082C3-FA38-4DDC-889E-228D29B42C5C@ahze.net> <42B09108.6020208@magnesium.net> <28921A19-8ED3-4DC3-92B2-DB68720D5DC8@ahze.net>
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Michael Johnson wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote: > >> Michael Johnson wrote: >> >>> On Jun 15, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote: >>> >>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:06:24 -0500, Erich Dollansky >>>> <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> Jeremy Messenger wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:09:33 -0500, Erich Dollansky >>>>>> <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> wrote: >>>>>> That's reason why we should kill GTK1, because of no support >>>>>> and no maintain for years. Avoid the world to have full of >>>>>> worms & co. from it. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> So, you say we should continue to give the poor people here our >>>>> old machines with Windows as this allows at least browsing with >>>>> Internet Explorer? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> on OLDER versions of windows. you could always download an older >>> version of freebsd and run an older version of firefox. >>> >>>> Uh? Aren't we talking about FreeBSD? >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>> 3) Use the different browser. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> This is what we currently do, but it ain't no FreeBSD browser. >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> Please, there have plenty of different browser for Linux/ FreeBSD. >>>> lynx, link, dillo, opera, and goes on... >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Erich >>>>> >> >> This discussion is getting silly. Someone needs to make a decision, >> and someone needs to commit it. I'm on vacation, so I'm not >> committing right now, but I will make a decision about this (follow >> it as you wish): >> >> * gtk12 support will *not* be added. We don't build gtk12 support >> into other apps, and we won't here. >> >> * Xlib/no-XUL support *will* be added. This should give people a nice >> option for slower machines who don't want to be bogged down by a GTK2 >> dependency. Note, however, that the FreeBSD GNOME team all uses GTK2, >> so the Xlib-only option won't get much committer testing in all >> likelihood. > > > This isn't posable according to jannisan, he said Xlib/no-XUL support > was removed in latest version of firefox so we're back at square 1 again. If Xlib/no-XUL support was removed, then I say that we drop the patch. There's no point to having a gtk12 firefox from our standpoint. AFAIC, gtk12 is legacy to the point of obsolescence. # Adam -- Adam Weinberger adamw@magnesium.net || adamw@FreeBSD.org adamw@vectors.cx || adamw@gnome.org http://www.vectors.cx
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