[HEADUP] FreeBSD Gecko's TODO and plan for future

[Jeremy Messenger]

On Sat, 22 Aug 2009 13:38:45 -0500, matt donovan <kitchetech at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Martin Wilke <miwi at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
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>> Howdy Guys,
>>
>> The FreeBSD Gecko Team will let you know what the plans for
>> the future are and on what we are currently working.
>>
>> Goals:
>> * Removal of mozilla, nvu, xulrunner and firefox2.
>> * www/firefox35 should be moved to www/firefox.
>> * The options USE_GECKO mozilla nvu xulrunner and firefox will be also
>> removed.
>>
>> Background:
>>  We have a lot of old stuff on the portstree and it's time to cleanup  
>> old
>> stuff.
>>     * www/mozilla is 5 year old now, no longer supported by upstream,  
>> and
>>       has many many vulnerabilities. We can use www/seamonkey.
>>
>>     * www/nvu last official release was in 2005, no longer supported,  
>> and
>>       also some vulnerabilities. We have www/kompozer which also need an
>>       update to get this unbroken.
>>
>>     * www/xulrunner is old and was replaced by www/libxul. We should not
>>       hold any old Gecko stuff. Also it's not longer supported by  
>> upstream:
>>       https://wiki.mozilla.org/XULRunner:Roadmap
>>
>> Problems which we have to solve:
>>  Some Gnome ports need www/firefox to build and work, but unfortunately
>>  firefox2 isn't longer supported by the Mozilla Foundation. Also
>>  www/firefox has a lot of vulnerabilities. We should www/firefox
>>  mark FORBIDDEN at this time gives no fixes for the latest securtiy
>>  reports.
>>
>> We see here 2 ways:
>>      1) The Gnome Team (not the FreeBSD Gnome Team) take time and move  
>> all
>> his
>>         stuff to libxul.

I believe that all of our ports have libxul support. You can go ahead  
remove those. If we happen to miss one, we will find it. :-)

>>      2) or we the FreeBSD Team have to remove all these ports. We know
>> that's
>>         really hard but we should not hold vulnerabilities stuff.
>>
>>   We hope to get here a bit help from the FreeBSD Gnome Team to make it
>>   possible to get some stuff to work with the current libxul version.
>>
>> Current Status:
>>        We working currently on Firefox 3.6 (alpha1) [2], Thunderbird 3.0
>> (beta3) [1],
>>        new libxul 1.9.1.2. All 3 are already committed to our repo.
>>
>>   [1] a screenshot from tb3 under FreeBSD
>>       http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/tb3.0b3.png
>>   [2] a screenshot from ff36 under FreeBSD
>>       http://tmp.chruetertee.ch/ff36.png
>>
>> A current status can you find here:
>>        https://trillian.chruetertee.ch/freebsd-gecko/wiki/TODO
>>
>>
>> So that's all at the moment, Feedback, Comments are welcome.
>>
>> - - Martin for the FreeBSD Gecko Team
>>
>>
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>
> I just have one question when has xulrunner been unsupported upstream
> considering that xulrunner 1.9.1 was released when firefox 3.5.2 was teh
> last release of xulrunner 1.9.x alpha was august 22end yes it's  
> development
> but it's still supported. upstream

The libxul is xulrunner 1.9x.

Cheers,
Mezz


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