Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:08:27 -0500 From: Jeremy Messenger <mezz7@cox.net> To: Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: RFC: What to do with Mozilla Message-ID: <oprw3l4dey8ckrg5@smtp.central.cox.net> In-Reply-To: <31B6987E-FF41-11D7-881B-003065ABFD92@mac.com> References: <31B6987E-FF41-11D7-881B-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
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On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:55:50 -0400, Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > 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 I agree, I heard that it's faster than 1.4.. > 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). Why www/mozilla4? Is there any good reason why to keep Mozilla 1.4? Does the 1.5 break the compatibility to the other apps? Cheers, Mezz -- bsdforums.org 's moderator, mezz.
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