From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 04:32:24 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE47710656E6 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:32:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx21.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FAA8FC20 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 04:32:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 20940 invoked by uid 399); 8 Sep 2010 04:32:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.142?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with ESMTPAM; 8 Sep 2010 04:32:23 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 X-Sender: dougb@dougbarton.us Message-ID: <4C8711D4.6020106@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 21:32:20 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://SupersetSolutions.com/ User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100825 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Farmer References: <4C866AB3.4030802@lapo.it> <4C868650.7090504@FreeBSD.org> <4C869EA8.4020002@lapo.it> <4C86F769.2020704@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 OpenPGP: id=1A1ABC84 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Ports , Stanislav Sedov , Andrew Pantyukhin , Lapo Luchini , Martin Wilke Subject: Re: XPI infrastructure needs some love X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:32:24 -0000 On 09/07/2010 09:09 PM, Rob Farmer wrote: > Around 6 months ago, a similar thing was proposed for a number of > eclipse plugins - they can all be installed and updated via the > builtin update manager and nothing is built for FreeBSD - they are > just Java stuff that can be binary downloaded and run anywhere. Are these eclipse plugins similar to mozilla plugins in that the user has to take an additional step after the FreeBSD package is added, or if the package is on the system then it's available to all the users immediately? If the latter, then I can understand why having FreeBSD packages of them would be valuable. If they are similar to mozilla plugins then I'm curious what the value-add is. Doug -- ... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. -- Propellerheads Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with a domain name makeover! http://SupersetSolutions.com/