Whither Thunderbird 3.1(.1)?

Beat Gaetzi beat at FreeBSD.org
Tue Aug 3 20:11:49 UTC 2010


On 03.08.2010 20:52, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 08/03/10 09:59, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> On 8/3/10 3:05 AM, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
>>> On 03.08.2010 02:59, Doug Barton wrote:
>>>> Just curious about the status of native Thunderbird 3.1.x. IMO the
>>>> linux
>>>> version is a significant improvement over 3.0.x, so I'd like to run the
>>>> native version and get out of "clunky font land" sometime soon. :)  Do
>>>> y'all have a roadmap? If I missed it, my apologies ...
>>>
>>> Thunderbird 3.1 is ready since it has been released but the update
>>> depends on this repo-cpoy:
>>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/148136
>>
>> Ugh.  With all my travel and work lately, the repocopies moved to cvs so
>> I missed them in my weekly sweep.  Sorry.  I just took care of this.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>>>
>>> In the meantime you could use the port from our development repository:
>>> # svn co
>>> https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/trunk/mail/thunderbird
> 
> Careful, if you guys start rewarding my whinging about stuff you'll just
> get more of it. :)
> 
> Meanwhile, hopefully ale can coordinate with y'all on the enigmail
> plugin since they made a break on compatibility and enigmail 1.0.x only
> works with tbird <= 3.0.x, and enigmail 1.1.x only works with tbird >=
> 3.1.x. Woo hoo!

Thanks for this heads-up. It was planned to remove
mail/enigmail-thunderbird but as we probably need two
enigmail-thunderbird ports I just mark it as IGNORE for now.

Beat


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