HEADS-UP: About www/midori browser (XFCE related)

Hi all,

As you may have noticed there is a new version of the Midori browser.

This new version is an almost complete rewrite based on Gecko (it really 
looks like a fork of Firefox LTS, looking at the new source code), 
published by a new entity that acquired the project some time ago. [1] [2]

I asked on the XFCE mailing list if there still was any connection 
between XFCE and the Midori project and they confirmed there is no such 
relation anymore [3] (this was already clear from the wikipedia page, 
but I wanted some confirmation).

Based on this I am planning to put the port back i the pull of 
unmaintained ports, removing it from under the XFCE hat.

If there are objections please state them in a reply.

I'll also give a shot at a final update to a current version before 
removing it from xfce@ maintainership. But since this is a complete 
rewrite using gecko, it looks like a difficult update and I am not sure 
I can succeed by myself.

Thanks in advance for any feedback!


[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser)

[2] https://astian.org/midori-browser/

[3] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2023-October/038165.html


P.S. the new project maintainers still state that this is a "lightweight 
browser". Considering that it is based on Gecko, and that, in the 
current time frame, "light weight" is not really an option for a 
standard compliant browser, I'd really think they should drop that from 
the description. But, since they use it, in my attempt to update the 
port I will keep such wording in pkg-descr, although I tend to mildly 
disagree.

-- 
Guido Falsi <madpilot@FreeBSD.org>