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

matt donovan kitchetech at gmail.com
Sat Aug 22 21:51:39 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 5:35 PM, Jeremy Messenger <mezz7 at cox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 15:52:43 -0500, <perryh at pluto.rain.com> wrote:
>
>  Martin Wilke <miwi at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Background:
>>>  We have a lot of old stuff on the portstree and it's time
>>>  to cleanup old stuff.
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>>     * 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.
>>>
>> ...
>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>
>> So, if I am understanding this correctly, it's proposed to
>> replace nvu with an updated kompozer, which to judge from
>> the name is part of KDE.  Thus Gnome acquires a dependency
>> on KDE by way of firefox/gecko?  This does not seem like a
>> Good Thing (TM).
>>
>
> Why don't you check what kompozer is first? ;-)
>
> Cheers,
> Mezz
>
>
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kompozer is NVU
KompoZer is an unoffical bugfix/update aka a fork


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