From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 8 05:00:50 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 000E910656B8; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:00:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfarmer@predatorlabs.net) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EC218FC0A; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 05:00:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws7 with SMTP id 7so5570405vws.13 for ; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:00:48 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.61.13 with SMTP id r13mr514761vch.202.1283922047586; Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:00:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.200.8 with HTTP; Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:00:47 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [71.1.133.114] In-Reply-To: <4C8711D4.6020106@FreeBSD.org> References: <4C866AB3.4030802@lapo.it> <4C868650.7090504@FreeBSD.org> <4C869EA8.4020002@lapo.it> <4C86F769.2020704@FreeBSD.org> <4C8711D4.6020106@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2010 22:00:47 -0700 Message-ID: From: Rob Farmer To: Doug Barton Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 05:00:50 -0000 On Tue, Sep 7, 2010 at 21:32, Doug Barton wrote: > 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= ? > =A0If the latter, then I can understand why having FreeBSD packages of th= em > would be valuable. If they are similar to mozilla plugins then I'm curiou= s > what the value-add is. I'm not quite sure what you mean by "take an additional step after the FreeBSD package is added." I've never used either the xpi ports or the eclipse plugins. Do users have to run some command to import the plugins into their ~/.mozilla profiles after root installs them or is it automatic? Skimming a couple makefiles, neither the xpi nor eclipse plugin ports indicate this type of thing in a pkg-message or similar that I can see. I don't really have much of an opinion on this - I can see the pros (easier administration) and cons (more ports to be maintained, possiblity of lagging behind what's available upstream) to having the ports. I just recall the discussion and mentioned it because I thought it might be relevant if there was already some precedent for this type of thing (it seems the eclispe ports were kept). --=20 Rob Farmer > > > Doug > > -- > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0... and that's just a little bit of history repeating. > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0-- Propellerheads > > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0Improve the effectiveness of your Internet presence with > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0a domain name makeover! =A0 =A0http://SupersetSolutions.co= m/ > >