From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 12:12:43 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C20DC16A4B3 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:12:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-03.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.84]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF32643F93 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:12:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com (rdu74-159-108.nc.rr.com [24.74.159.108])h9FJAI0E028678; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:10:18 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [10.2.1.4] (vpn-client-4.marcuscom.com [10.2.1.4]) h9FJCCdm039033; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:12:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@FreeBSD.org) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Jeremy Messenger In-Reply-To: References: <31B6987E-FF41-11D7-881B-003065ABFD92@mac.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-NoReQLSsWrT3zOLSzDHf" Organization: FreeBSD, Inc. Message-Id: <1066245158.721.40.camel@gyros> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:12:38 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on creme-brulee.marcuscom.com cc: ports@FreeBSD.org cc: Charles Swiger Subject: Re: RFC: What to do with Mozilla X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 19:12:43 -0000 --=-NoReQLSsWrT3zOLSzDHf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 15:08, Jeremy Messenger wrote: > On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:55:50 -0400, Charles Swiger wrot= e: >=20 > > 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 wit= h > >> 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 o= ut > >> shortly as well, and mozilla-devel will be updated to that. > > > > Update www/mozilla to 1.5 >=20 > I agree, I heard that it's faster than 1.4.. >=20 > > but support 1.4 via a port named www/mozilla14 would provide=20 > > backwards-compatibility in a fashion similar to other=20 > > explicitly-versioned ports (squid, autoconf, python, etc). >=20 > Why www/mozilla4? Is there any good reason why to keep Mozilla 1.4? Does=20 > the 1.5 break the compatibility to the other apps? Yeah, I'm honestly looking for feedback here, but if you say that we should keep 1.4.x, I'd like to know why. If there's a good reason (like OOo), then by all means, we can keep it. Joe >=20 > Cheers, > Mezz --=20 Joe Marcus Clarke FreeBSD GNOME Team :: marcus@FreeBSD.org gnome@FreeBSD.org FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome --=-NoReQLSsWrT3zOLSzDHf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/jZwmb2iPiv4Uz4cRAmS8AKCmtFJxZaON7U/mJTgfb/nMX60OvgCfRmLB 0fOZCQsFr7LMxZF0JTgpVIQ= =I8Yu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-NoReQLSsWrT3zOLSzDHf--