Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2000 03:59:45 +0900 (JST) From: SADA Kenji <sada@bsdclub.org> To: trevor@jpj.net Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG, girgen@partitur.se, obrien@NUXI.com, lioux@uol.com.br, sada@bsdclub.org Subject: Re: Kill Netscape us ports and version 4.08. (was Re: Netscapebrowsers us versions avail. abroad) Message-ID: <200007231859.DAA90742@home.bsdclub.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Jul 2000 13:13:06 -0400 (EDT)". <Pine.BSI.4.21.0007231208380.18450-100000@blues.jpj.net>
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In article <Pine.BSI.4.21.0007231208380.18450-100000@blues.jpj.net> trevor@jpj.net writes: >> > Also I'm planning to remove Netscape-4.08 ports and make >> > www/netscape47-c as MASTERDIR. Anyone needs those ports today ? >> >> A couple of months ago (or so) someone proposed removing the old versions. >> Someone else countered by saying that the newer ones consume more memory >> than some users can spare. No one mentioned the numerous security bugs in >> the old versions. Maybe they should at least carry a warning, something >> like "if you are going to use these on the Internet, not just for viewing >> files on your hard drive, read http://www.nat.bg/~joro/netscape.html >> first". I see. How about new ``NEED_SECURITY_WARNING'' option for the old versions ? >> > Are you saying that we need www/netscape473-c/n and/or something ? >> >> It looks to me like the only reason for the 4.73 version was to try to fix >> the SSL problem described in >> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-05.html . However, >> http://www.cert.org/advisories/CA-2000-08.html says there's still a >> similar problem in 4.73. The "international" versions have crippled SSL >> anyway, unless Fortify is used. The Fortify people stopped development >> after Netscape 4.72. In light of all that, I think version 4.72 would be >> best for the users I mentioned. Sounds reasonable to me. Any other comments for new www/netscape472-c/n ? > all To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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