Firefox 2.0?

[Randall Wood]

On 11 May 2007, at 02:48, Keith J. Schultz wrote:

> Am I missing something here? Would not a port come from the linux  
> side and thereby x11?
> I mean are ports basically unix? Yes, I know of the aqua branch of  
> ports.

Mac OS X is basically unix. However, given all the minor differences  
between unix versions and linux versions, it is pretty much  
impossible to build a complex application that really does not care  
what variant of unix its running on. The aqua branch of ports is  
irrelevant here. What is relevant is that the Mozilla developers will  
drop in fixes for making things work on the Mac in Aqua by testing  
"Are we on a mac?" not by testing "Are we building for aqua?"

> 	regards
> 		Keith.
>
> Am 10.05.2007 um 20:37 schrieb Randall Wood:
>
>> 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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>>
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Randall Wood
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"The rules are simple: The ball is round. The game lasts 90 minutes.  
All the
rest is just philosophy."