From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Feb 27 16:13:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rock.ghis.net (rock.ghis.net [209.222.164.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4C0E37B51C; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:13:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from will@blackdawn.com) Received: from shadow.blackdawn.com (postfix@13-018.008.popsite.net [209.69.195.18] (may be forged)) by rock.ghis.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA06296; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 16:13:31 -0800 (PST) Received: by shadow.blackdawn.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 00D0D18A2; Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:13:20 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2000 19:13:20 -0500 From: Will Andrews To: Doug Barton Cc: obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, Satoshi Asami , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: QUICK RESPONCE NEEDED: Netscape 4.72 handling Message-ID: <20000227191320.B21819@shadow.blackdawn.com> References: <20000227113708.A18632@dragon.nuxi.com> <38B9950A.2A0A13@gorean.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38B9950A.2A0A13@gorean.org>; from Doug@gorean.org on Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 01:20:10PM -0800 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Feb 27, 2000 at 01:20:10PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: > David O'Brien wrote: > > I'd like to update Netscape offering on the DEC Alpha to version 4.72. > > Should I do this upgrade in as the netscape47-* ports, or do we need to > > repo copy netscape47-* to netscape472-* ? Personally, I see 4.72 as a > > minor update to 4.7 and would just assume keep the port names the same. If nothing else, I agree with this handling (that the netscape47 port would keep its name). > Personally I think we should eliminate all of the netscapeN* ports. I > don't see any reason to keep the really old versions. I agree with Doug here. I think that the following: linux-netscape4 linux-netscape4[6,7]-communicator netscape3 netscape3-gold netscape4[5,6]-[navigator,communicator[.us]] netscape47-[navigator,communicator].us should be wiped out and combined into two ports: navigator4 communicator4 linux-navigator4 linux-communicator4 I honestly do not see any reason why knobs cannot be added to the ports to allow U.S. security features, or whatever. I also don't see any point in prefixing the names with "netscape". I would go even farther as to put the Linux option as a knob, but I feel that we would lose the packages for the Linux versions. What do you think? -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message