Date: Thu, 4 May 2000 20:27:29 +0400 (MSD) From: "Aleksandr A.Babaylov" <babolo@links.ru> To: knu@idaemons.org (Akinori -Aki- MUSHA) Cc: sada@FreeBSD.ORG, obrien@FreeBSD.ORG, tom@eborcom.com, girgen@partitur.se, cjh@kr.freebsd.org, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Introducing a netscape wrapper Message-ID: <200005041627.UAA07604@aaz.links.ru> In-Reply-To: <86bt2nv26q.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> from "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" at "May 4, 0 04:55:25 am"
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Akinori -Aki- MUSHA writes:
> Hi, netscape ports' maintainers.
>
> I had ported a netscape wrapper from RedHat Linux and been pondering
> how to introduce it with minimum changes over a bunch of netscape
> ports, then I came up with an idea. We could do it by the following
> steps.
>
> 1) Make all netscape ports install ${PREFIX}/bin/netscape.run instead
> of ${PREFIX}/bin/netscape.
>
> 2) Import a new port called www/netscape-wrapper that installs
> ${PREFIX}/bin/netscape that invokes ${PREFIX}/bin/netscape.run on
> demand.
>
> What the wrapper exactly does would be described as this: First,
> the wrapper checks whether the lock file (~/.netscape/lock)
> exists, and when it actually does, it searches for the currently
> running netscape process and asks that to open a new window to
> show a page with the supplied URL. When no instance is running,
> it runs a new netscape with the URL. The wrapper is also capable
> of killing a stale lock file and/or zombie instances.
>
> Thus applications could show HTML help windows, web sites and
> any resources they want just by executing "netscape foo.bar",
> without the Netscape-has-detected-a-lock-file-blah-blah-blah
> warnings.
>
> Plus, some neat shortcuts to such as opening a Messenger window
> are supported. Look into the port for further details.
>
> 3) Make all netscape ports depend on www/netscape-wrapper.
3 is the Bad Thing IMHO
look at ports/www/netscape-remote
> The patch that does 1) and 3) is attached at the bottom of this mail,
> and the concrete work of 2) is available on the site below:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~knu/ports/www/netscape-wrapper/
> http://people.freebsd.org/~knu/ports/www/netscape-wrapper.tar.gz
>
>
> I'd note I didn't touch the www/netscape4-communicator.us port because
> it installs ${PREFIX}/bin/netscape.us, not ${PREFIX}/bin/netscape.
As far as I remember (I do not use ports for netscape
because I need 9 Netscapes in onre system) ${PREFIX}/bin/netscape is
symlink only to shell script with name-version.
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