Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 21:12:16 +0200 From: "J.-P. Klodzinski" <jpk@gmx.org> To: matt donovan <kitchetech@gmail.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org, gecko@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future Message-ID: <4A904310.5060401@gmx.org> In-Reply-To: <28283d910908221138r57fb86a7k6ce51f93ac5f170f@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090822182208.GM82743@bsdcrew.de> <28283d910908221138r57fb86a7k6ce51f93ac5f170f@mail.gmail.com>
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matt donovan wrote: > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Martin Wilke <miwi@freebsd.org> wrote: > > 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. > 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 > > _______________________________________________ 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 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi, I think he means www/xulrunner, based on 1.8.0 (http://www.freshports.org/www/xulrunner/) is no longer supported und should get removed from the tree. Your mentioned xulrunner 1.9.x is still supported and inside the ports-tree under www/libxul, which will not get removed. (http://www.freshports.org/www/libxul/) /BR
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