[HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future

[matt donovan]

On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 3:12 PM, J.-P. Klodzinski <jpk at gmx.org> wrote:

> matt donovan wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Martin Wilke <miwi at 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
> >
> >
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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
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>
> 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
>
>
Ah ok since I know that libxul is a single library. hence why I got a bit
confused since I knew xulrunner is still supported jsut not 1.8.x