From owner-freebsd-gnome@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 16 11:40:17 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1F4316A552 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thuis.piwebs.com (217-19-20-186.dsl.cambrium.nl [217.19.20.186]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AAD6743FF3 for ; Thu, 16 Oct 2003 11:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avleeuwen@piwebs.com) Received: (qmail 96450 invoked by uid 85); 16 Oct 2003 18:41:15 -0000 Received: from avleeuwen@piwebs.com by thuis.piwebs.com by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20rc1 (uvscan: v4.2.40/v4288. Clear:RC:1:. Processed in 0.0670500000000001 secs); 16 Oct 2003 18:41:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO 192.168.0.109) (192.168.0.109) by 0 with SMTP; 16 Oct 2003 18:41:14 -0000 From: Arjan van Leeuwen To: Joe Marcus Clarke Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 20:40:13 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <1066241563.721.27.camel@gyros> <200310161705.20400.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> <1066317008.753.14.camel@gyros> In-Reply-To: <1066317008.753.14.camel@gyros> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200310162040.13558.avleeuwen@piwebs.com> cc: FreeBSD GNOME Users cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RFC: What to do with Mozilla X-BeenThere: freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: GNOME for FreeBSD -- porting and maintaining List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 18:40:17 -0000 On Thursday 16 October 2003 17:10, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote: > 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 > > > > 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. You can in the current situation, and I like that. I wasn't talking about that. This was a response to Philip Paeps' suggestion of creating one big mozilla port (www/mozilla) where you have to set knobs to get the different mozilla versions - and no seperate ports for Firebird and the other versions of Mozilla. Or is that not what you (Philip) meant? Arjan > > 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"