Obsolete Ports for firefox-x11 and thunderbird-x11

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 9, 2014, at 10:31, Johannes Kastl wrote:

> On 09.01.14 16:23 Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> 
>> What benefit would you get from having updated versions of these
>> ports, that you would not get by downloading the pre-compiled
>> binaries from the developer’s web site? The previous maintainer of
>> these ports gave up because it was an enormous amount of work to
>> build these complicated software packages. There would have to be a
>> good reason for someone to continue to invest that amount of time.
> 
> The only benefit I could see would be, that you get the updates as
> soon as you upgrade your ports, even before you open Firefox on that
> machine.
> 
> But its questionable if this is worth the effort, I agree.

The ports are for X11 versions of the software whereas the binaries you can download from Mozilla are Cocoa versions. So unless you have specific desire for X11 versions, I think you’re better off using Mozilla’s binaries.