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Subject: Re: RFC: What to do with Mozilla
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On Wednesday, October 15, 2003, at 02:12 PM, 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.

Update www/mozilla to 1.5, but support 1.4 via a port named 
www/mozilla14 would provide backwards-compatibility in a fashion 
similar to other explicitly-versioned ports (squid, autoconf, python, 
etc).

-- 
-Chuck