Am I missing how to build a more recent version of Firefox via MacPorts? I built firefox-x11 and that only gave me 1.5. Enjoy the day, Christian ~ http://web.mac.com/christianbonanno/ http://web.mac.com/christianbonanno/iWeb/Sangha/Dharma%20Blog/Dharma% 20Blog.html
Hi Christian,
Am I missing how to build a more recent version of Firefox via MacPorts? I built firefox-x11 and that only gave me 1.5.
I don't think you're missing anything; it looks like 1.5.0.1 is the only version of FireFox currently in our ports tree. If you're not up to trying to creating and maintaining a new port (which would be most appreciated!), your best bet would be to open a ticket asking for a new port (Cc'ed to yourself and the current maintainer of firefox-x11), and/or an update of firefox-x11 to the most recent 1.5 version (1.5.0.11). Kind regards, Maun Suang -- Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) Email: boeyms@macports.org
On May 10, 2007, at 00:56, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
Am I missing how to build a more recent version of Firefox via MacPorts? I built firefox-x11 and that only gave me 1.5.
I don't think you're missing anything; it looks like 1.5.0.1 is the only version of FireFox currently in our ports tree. If you're not up to trying to creating and maintaining a new port (which would be most appreciated!), your best bet would be to open a ticket asking for a new port (Cc'ed to yourself and the current maintainer of firefox-x11), and/or an update of firefox-x11 to the most recent 1.5 version (1.5.0.11).
Why wouldn't we want to just update firefox-x11 to 2.0.0.3?
On 10/05/2007, at 17:41, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Why wouldn't we want to just update firefox-x11 to 2.0.0.3?
I'd be for that, but it might take significantly more work to get 2.0.0.3 to build than it would 1.5.0.11, so we could provide the latter in the meantime. In addition, some people might have their own reasons to want to continue using 1.5 despite the fact that Mozilla will cease supporting it in a week or so, so we can provide it under firefox-x11-1.5 or similar for a year or so. I just like the idea of giving people choice when it won't cost us much to do so. Kind regards, Maun Suang -- Boey Maun Suang (Boey is my surname) Email: boeyms@macports.org
On 2007-05-10 15:56:16 +1000, Boey Maun Suang wrote:
I don't think you're missing anything; it looks like 1.5.0.1 is the only version of FireFox currently in our ports tree. If you're not up to trying to creating and maintaining a new port (which would be most appreciated!), your best bet would be to open a ticket asking for a new port (Cc'ed to yourself and the current maintainer of firefox-x11), and/or an update of firefox-x11 to the most recent 1.5 version (1.5.0.11).
BTW, how about XUL (Gecko) libraries for other XUL-based applications? I mainly think of Liferea, whose port currently uses libgtkhtml, which is buggy and very limited, but which can be built with XUL support under Linux. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vincent@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Why wouldn't we want to just update firefox-x11 to 2.0.0.3?
I would personally not mind it. Problem is, the current firefox-x11 does not work (at least on Intel Macs, it is an issue somebody is working on as far as I know) and the same goes for 2.0.0.x. SO just updating the version won't solve anything. I am certainly hoping that firefox-x11 will be available, this is currently my most significant usability issue (I am using Mac OS firefox but Aqua does not play well with my X11 window manager so I would be ecstatic to have an X11 application instead). Stefan
Unfortunately, the Mozilla group WILL NOT SUPPORT building any of its products on Mac OS X without using Aqua, so every single mozilla application has to be severely hacked to make it build and/or run and/ or support linking against in an X11 environment. If someone wants to make a new port, copying all the useful bits out of Fink's Firefox2 port is a good starting point. On 10 May 2007, at 13:02, Stefan Bruda wrote:
Ryan Schmidt wrote:
Why wouldn't we want to just update firefox-x11 to 2.0.0.3?
I would personally not mind it. Problem is, the current firefox- x11 does not work (at least on Intel Macs, it is an issue somebody is working on as far as I know) and the same goes for 2.0.0.x. SO just updating the version won't solve anything. I am certainly hoping that firefox- x11 will be available, this is currently my most significant usability issue (I am using Mac OS firefox but Aqua does not play well with my X11 window manager so I would be ecstatic to have an X11 application instead).
Stefan
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Boey Maun Suang
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Christian Bonanno
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Randall Wood
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Ryan Schmidt
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Stefan Bruda
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Vincent Lefevre