Port upgrade: www/firefox. Added GUI selection support

[Michael Johnson]

On Jun 15, 2005, at 4:35 PM, Adam Weinberger wrote:

> Michael Johnson wrote:
>
>> On Jun 15, 2005, at 2:28 PM, Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 05:06:24 -0500, Erich Dollansky   
>>> <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Jeremy Messenger wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 04:09:33 -0500, Erich Dollansky    
>>>>> <oceanare at pacific.net.sg> wrote:
>>>>>  That's reason why we should kill GTK1, because of no support  
>>>>> and  no  maintain for years. Avoid the world to have full of  
>>>>> worms &  co. from it.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> So, you say we should continue to give the poor people here our   
>>>> old machines with Windows as this allows at least browsing with   
>>>> Internet Explorer?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>> on OLDER versions of windows. you could always download an older   
>> version of freebsd and run an older version of firefox.
>>
>>> Uh? Aren't we talking about FreeBSD?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>>> 3) Use the different browser.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This is what we currently do, but it ain't no FreeBSD browser.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> Please, there have plenty of different browser for Linux/ 
>>> FreeBSD.  lynx, link, dillo, opera, and goes on...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Erich
>>>>
>
> This discussion is getting silly. Someone needs to make a decision,  
> and someone needs to commit it. I'm on vacation, so I'm not  
> committing right now, but I will make a decision about this (follow  
> it as you wish):
>
> * gtk12 support will *not* be added. We don't build gtk12 support  
> into other apps, and we won't here.
>
> * Xlib/no-XUL support *will* be added. This should give people a  
> nice option for slower machines who don't want to be bogged down by  
> a GTK2 dependency. Note, however, that the FreeBSD GNOME team all  
> uses GTK2, so  the Xlib-only option won't get much committer  
> testing in all likelihood.

This isn't posable according to jannisan, he said Xlib/no-XUL support  
was removed in latest version of firefox so we're back at square 1  
again.

>
> Mezz, ahze, do either of you want to commit this?
>
> # Adam
>
>
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