From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 08:00:37 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4322216A415 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:00:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from mail10.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail10.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D2D943D4C for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:00:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from peterjeremy@optushome.com.au) Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (c58-107-94-118.belrs4.nsw.optusnet.com.au [58.107.94.118]) by mail10.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k9Q7xeQD020982 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 26 Oct 2006 18:00:02 +1000 Received: from turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (localhost.vk2pj.dyndns.org [127.0.0.1]) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id k9Q7xd0Q001229; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:59:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org) Received: (from peter@localhost) by turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id k9Q7xdrZ001228; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:59:39 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from peter) Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 17:59:39 +1000 From: Peter Jeremy To: Peter Thoenen Message-ID: <20061026075939.GC917@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org> References: <20061026014934.91554.qmail@web51904.mail.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061026014934.91554.qmail@web51904.mail.yahoo.com> X-PGP-Key: http://members.optusnet.com.au/peterjeremy/pubkey.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: firefox 2.0 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: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 08:00:37 -0000 --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-Oct-25 18:49:34 -0700, Peter Thoenen wrote: >> Sorry, but the Firefox 2.0 release was too late to be included in >> FreeBSD 6.2. > >Is it really that late? Firefox is something new uesrs look for / >expect and it has a large enough view that we might want to think about >including it. Similar requests occur just before every release. FreeBSD has nearly 16,000 ports at present. If the Project delayed its releases to include the latest version of every port that was upgraded just after the cutoff then the release would never occur. The Project has made a decision to draw a line in the sand and only move it for critical issues (if there was a major security hole reported in an important port then things might get delayed to include a fix). There are over 200 other ports that have Firefox listed as a dependency. Firefox 2.0 is presumably a major upgrade compared to Firefox 1.5 and it's highly likely that the upgrade would adversely impact at least one of those other ports - necessitating more last minute fixes. --=20 Peter Jeremy --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFQGrr/opHv/APuIcRAg5YAJ4u8OTH8PD5xqUY9BANbCKAK1bR+ACcCcqW 3GN+c9S2tSWnMNdCpQrZ0nM= =t+q5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TakKZr9L6Hm6aLOc--