Whither Thunderbird 3.1(.1)?

Jimmie James jimmiejaz at gmail.com
Tue Aug 10 12:39:05 UTC 2010


On 08/10/10 08:30, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
>> On 08/05/10 03:27, Beat Gaetzi wrote:
>>> On 05.08.2010 05:53, Jimmie James wrote:
>>>> On 03.08.2010 18:59, 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.
>>>>
>>>>> Great! Thank you. I will commit Lightning 1.0b1 and Thunderbird 3.1.1
>>>>> within the next hours.
>>>>
>>>>> Beat
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible to get deskutils/lightning working with
>>>> thunderbird-3.1.1? I don't really wish to downgrade to 3.0.6.
>>>> I tried changing the Makefile to read
>>>> RUN_DEPENDS+=
>>>> ${LOCALBASE}/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin:${PORTSDIR}/mail/thunderbird
>>>> but it failed to build.
>>>
>>> The version in ports only work with Thunderbird 3.0 and SeaMonkey 2.0.
>>> Lightning 1.0b2 which is currently not in the portstree works with
>>> Thunderbird 3.1 but not with Thunderbird 3.0 and SeaMonkey.
>>>
>>> You will find this version of Lightning in our development repository:
>>> # svn co
>>> https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/svn/freebsd-gecko/branches/experimental/deskutils/lightning
>>>
>>> As this is not the first request about Lightning for Thunderbird 3.1 I
>>> will ask for a repo copy deskutils/lightning ->
>>> deskutils/lightning-thunderbird and commit this version to the new port.
>>>
>>> Beat
>>>
>>
>> Hi Beat, thanks again for all your hard work on this.
>>
>> After updating my ports tree (as of Mon Aug 9 22:45:40 EDT 2010, #
>> $FreeBSD: ports/deskutils/lightning-thunderbird/Makefile,v 1.35
>> 2010/08/08 10:34:32 beat Exp $
>>
>> Running pkg_delete thunderbird-3.1.1 and a portinstall
>> deskutils/lightning-thunderbird, I have no calender.
>> cat pkg_message shows:
>> In order to activate the Lightning extension, every user should install
>> the
>> XPI file into his own profile via the menu:
>> Tools ->  Add-ons ->  Install (for Thunderbird)
>> Yet find . -type f -name \*.xpi doesn't show it, [1] and pkg_info |grep
>> -i thunder, pkg_info |grep -i lightn only show thunderbird-3.1.2.
>
> You should find the xpi here:
> /usr/local/share/lightning/lightning-1.0b2.source--freebsd8-i386.xpi
> Could you please check if this file is available on your system?
>
> Beat
>


Not even a lightning directory.

[8:38:03]  jimmie at jimmiejaz <134> [0] ~>ls -al /usr/local/share/lightning/
ls: /usr/local/share/lightning/: No such file or directory

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