Re: [gentoo-dev] Netscape Packages

["Jared H. Hudson" <jhhudso@volumehost.com>]

I think mozilla 0.9.9 is what most people build these days on Gentoo.

-Jared H.

On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, John Dee wrote:

> One more question I've got.
> Would you guys be willing to replace netscape 4.x with netscape 6 as the 
> default browser?
> Since netscape 4.x isn't really being maintained anymore (I do builds 
> once a week, blah bleh), and the 6.x line is nscp's main focus, would 
> you guys be willing to make netscape6 the default netscape browser?
> 
> George Shapovalov wrote:
> > If you would like to see Netscape 6 in gentoo and are willing to spend some 
> > time on it, please do contribute by any means.
> > Now to the technical stuff.
> > You do not need to know many details about portage code. What is getting 
> > submitted is a set of build instructions wrapped in a bash script (and as 
> > such, the tarball itself will not help much).
> > Please see:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/gentoo-howto.html
> > for a description on how to create such an ebuild 
> > (bash script (quite often very basic) containing install instructions). You 
> > can also look at ebuilds for other packages.
> > The ebuild and any necessary supplementary files (patches, etc) are to be 
> > submitted to http://bugs.gentoo.org, this page contains an ebuild submission 
> > description:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/ebuild-submit.html.
> > 
> > If you still do not feel like creating an ebuild file (BTW you can always go 
> > to #gentoo channel at irc.openprojects.net to get some real-time ebuild 
> > creation assistance) you can instead submit build instructions and any url 
> > pointers to bugs.gentoo.org as a feature request ( but this will take more 
> > time to process for obvious reasons :)).
> > 
> > George
> > 
> > 
> > On Friday 12 April 2002 11:32, John Dee wrote:
> > 
> >>I was looking at your netscape packages, and was wondering why you guys
> >>weren't using the 6.x series. The reason I ask, is that the 4.x series
> >>probably won't have another release (I'm the *NIX build engineer on the
> >>project).
> >>I'm also one of the build engineers on the 6.x project.
> >>Also, if needed, I could make a 6.x package for you guys. It really
> >>wouldn't take much to do.
> >>The only thing that might be a problem is the fact I don't know portage
> >>yet (I've been using gentoo a total of about 3 days).
> >>I *COULD* supply you guys with a tarball, and instructions, if you want.
> >>
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