Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:10:08 -0400 From: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com> To: Arjan van Leeuwen <avleeuwen@piwebs.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: What to do with Mozilla Message-ID: <1066317008.753.14.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <200310161705.20400.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> References: <1066241563.721.27.camel@gyros> <20031016102623.GE648@hermes.nixsys.be> <200310161705.20400.avleeuwen@piwebs.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 11:05, Arjan van Leeuwen wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2003 12:26, Philip Paeps wrote: > > On 2003-10-15 14:12:44 (-0400), Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> > wrote: > > > As some of you may be aware, Mozilla 1.5 was released today (along with > > > Firebird and Thunderbird updates which will be handled soon). The > > > question is, what do we do with Mozilla 1.4.x? Do you resurrect > > > mozilla-vendor to hold 1.4.x for a while, or do we just update > > > www/mozilla to 1.5, and say "to hell" with 1.4.x? Note, 1.6a is due out > > > shortly as well, and mozilla-devel will be updated to that. > > > > Perhaps we should look at Mozilla more as a 'collection of things', much > > like GNOME than as simply several different unrelated things? > > > > We could make 'www/mozilla' build the browser-bits, with knobs for the user > > to say what browser they want: > > > > WITH_MOZILLA_FB --> Mozilla Firebird > > WITH_MOZILLA_14 --> Latest on the 1.4 branch > > WITH_MOZILLA_15 --> Latest on the 1.5 branch > > WITH_MOZILLA_16 --> Latest on the 1.6 branch > > > > Default would be 'the most stable', which currently would probably have to > > be the 1.4 branch. So if a user were to compile www/mozilla or pkg_add it, > > he would get a stable browser, as expected. > > > > A nice way to sort out dependencies would be a USE_MOZILLA variable, much > > like the USE_GNOME variable for ports to say what bits or what version of > > Mozilla they want. We could use pkgnamesuffixes to deal with different > > versions of Mozilla being installed (each in different places, of course) > > and a 'mozilla' symlink pointing to the binary the user expects to be his > > browser. > > I don't really like this idea. Mozilla and Mozilla Firebird are clearly > different programs, so they should have different ports. > > Furthermore, the versioning is inconsistent with other ports, and it would be > far more difficult for people to search for the newest version of Mozilla (go > to Freshports, search for Mozilla - you'll find Mozilla 1.4, because that's > the default. Where is 1.5? Where is Firebird? Same with searching using make > search). I'm able to find all Mozilla browsers (including Firebird and even Thunderbird) when I search Freshports with "mozilla". Plus, 1.5 is not in the tree yet, hence this whole thread. I'm not sure I follow what you're trying to say here. Joe > > Arjan > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/jrTQb2iPiv4Uz4cRAo4JAJ9Kmc5J4Gx5XU7g/vAzVxP5l2r0twCeLgfu ruOzQTD+P83ukvFqx+htTI0= =IcG/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----home | help
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