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Date:      Wed, 15 Oct 2003 15:01:48 -0400
From:      Joe Marcus Clarke <marcus@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Charles Swiger <cswiger@mac.com>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: RFC: What to do with Mozilla
Message-ID:  <1066244507.721.37.camel@gyros>
In-Reply-To: <31B6987E-FF41-11D7-881B-003065ABFD92@mac.com>
References:  <31B6987E-FF41-11D7-881B-003065ABFD92@mac.com>

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On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 14:55, Charles Swiger wrote:
> 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 with
> > 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=20
> > out
> > shortly as well, and mozilla-devel will be updated to that.
>=20
> Update www/mozilla to 1.5, but support 1.4 via a port named=20
> www/mozilla14 would provide backwards-compatibility in a fashion=20
> similar to other explicitly-versioned ports (squid, autoconf, python,=20
> etc).

That's what mozilla-vendor used to be for.  Why should we continue to
support 1.4.x?  Do you have something that requires it?

Joe

--=20
Joe Marcus Clarke
FreeBSD GNOME Team	::	marcus@FreeBSD.org
gnome@FreeBSD.org
FreeNode / #freebsd-gnome
http://www.FreeBSD.org/gnome


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