On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:38:45 -0500, matt donovan <kitchet...@gmail.com>
wrote:
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Martin Wilke <m...@freebsd.org> wrote:
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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
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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
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