Please deprecate print/acrobatviewer port

Garrett Cooper youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Thu Dec 21 03:44:09 PST 2006


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Hello,
	Following some discussion on the -questions list (and a few
other discussion threads on other sites), I believe that
print/acrobatviewer should be deprecated in the ports tree.
	Acrobatviewer is no longer supported by Adobe and hasn't been
developed on in quite some time. Moreover, it uses (beta) technology
present from the 5.x Acrobat product family, which has a variety of
security issues, as noted on the Adobe Security webpage (listed below).
Finally, the port developer used the 1.1.x tree JVM as the default JVM,
which is incredibly out of date and has its own set of security issues
as well as is a deprecated JVM, no longer supported by Sun by my knowledge.

References:
Product page -- http://www.adobe.com/ap/products/acrviewer/
Security page -- http://www.adobe.com/support/security/index.html

	Thank you.
Sincerely,
Garrett Cooper

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