Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:17:24 -0500 From: "Jeremy Messenger" <mezz7@cox.net> To: "matt donovan" <kitchetech@gmail.com> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org, ports@freebsd.org, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org>, gecko@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future Message-ID: <op.uy2vvy0c9aq2h7@localhost> In-Reply-To: <28283d910908221138r57fb86a7k6ce51f93ac5f170f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090822182208.GM82743@bsdcrew.de> <28283d910908221138r57fb86a7k6ce51f93ac5f170f@mail.gmail.com>
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On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:38:45 -0500, matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Howdy Guys, >> >> The FreeBSD Gecko Team will let you know what the plans for >> the future are and on what we are currently working. >> >> Goals: >> * Removal of mozilla, nvu, xulrunner and firefox2. >> * www/firefox35 should be moved to www/firefox. >> * The options USE_GECKO mozilla nvu xulrunner and firefox will be also >> removed. >> >> Background: >> We have a lot of old stuff on the portstree and it's time to cleanup >> old >> stuff. >> * www/mozilla is 5 year old now, no longer supported by upstream, >> and >> has many many vulnerabilities. We can use www/seamonkey. >> >> * www/nvu last official release was in 2005, no longer supported, >> and >> also some vulnerabilities. We have www/kompozer which also need an >> update to get this unbroken. >> >> * www/xulrunner is old and was replaced by www/libxul. We should not >> hold any old Gecko stuff. Also it's not longer supported by >> upstream: >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/XULRunner:Roadmap >> >> Problems which we have to solve: >> Some Gnome ports need www/firefox to build and work, but unfortunately >> firefox2 isn't longer supported by the Mozilla Foundation. Also >> www/firefox has a lot of vulnerabilities. We should www/firefox >> mark FORBIDDEN at this time gives no fixes for the latest securtiy >> reports. >> >> We see here 2 ways: >> 1) The Gnome Team (not the FreeBSD Gnome Team) take time and move >> all >> his >> stuff to libxul. I believe that all of our ports have libxul support. You can go ahead remove those. If we happen to miss one, we will find it. :-) >> 2) or we the FreeBSD Team have to remove all these ports. We know >> that's >> really hard but we should not hold vulnerabilities stuff. >> >> We hope to get here a bit help from the FreeBSD Gnome Team to make it >> possible to get some stuff to work with the current libxul version. >> >> Current Status: >> We working currently on Firefox 3.6 (alpha1) [2], Thunderbird 3.0 >> (beta3) [1], >> new libxul 1.9.1.2. All 3 are already committed to our repo. >> >> [1] a screenshot from tb3 under FreeBSD >> http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/tb3.0b3.png >> [2] a screenshot from ff36 under FreeBSD >> http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/ff36.png >> >> A current status can you find here: >> https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/freebsd-gecko/wiki/TODO >> >> >> So that's all at the moment, Feedback, Comments are welcome. >> >> - - Martin for the FreeBSD Gecko Team >> >> >> - -- >> >> +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ >> | PGP : 0xB1E6FCE9 | Jabber : miwi(at)BSDCrew.de | >> | Skype : splash_111 | Mail : miwi(at)FreeBSD.org | >> +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ >> | Mess with the Best, Die like the Rest! | >> +-----------------------+-------------------------------+ >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAkqQN08ACgkQdLJIhLHm/OlZ7wCgk6xG3ymevRMf1D/0e9LpEqZ4 >> vF8An200XdohvNq3nptL4NCBIom+vgPN >> =SlKU >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" > > > I just have one question when has xulrunner been unsupported upstream > considering that xulrunner 1.9.1 was released when firefox 3.5.2 was teh > last release of xulrunner 1.9.x alpha was august 22end yes it's > development > but it's still supported. upstream The libxul is xulrunner 1.9x. Cheers, Mezz -- mezz7@cox.net - mezz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD GNOME Team http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome/ - gnome@FreeBSD.org
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