On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:05:27PM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2013/10/18 20:02, Landry Breuil wrote: > > Hi, > > > > just a headsup to potential www/fennec & productivity/sunbird users.. if > > there are some. Removing those ports would allow me to remove lots of > > cruft from mozilla.port.mk, and sanitize the mozilla builds. They're > > dead upstream & sortof unmaintained... so if you want to keep them, > > speak now or stay silent forever. lightning is the supported version of > > sunbird (but you need to run fullblown thunderbird) and fennec got > > switched to javacrap upstream for android, and thus doesnt build anymore > > on top of xul. > > > > Landry > > > > I'm using OpenBSD on a dedicated machine for a wallboard calendar display, > - I knew there was a standalone version of the mozilla calendar but forgot > what > it was called, so I just installed Thunderbird for this and it's working > perfectly well. I don't think there's any particular reason to continue with a > semi-maintained standalone port and if it's getting in your way, go ahead and > zap. > > Fennec might be interesting on lower-powered machines but only if it's > reasonably up to date - Java is only really working properly on OpenBSD amd64 > at the moment, and there's no real need for Fennec there, so probably not > useful to keep.
In that case, i said java but was more meaning 'using java apis for android' so this is definitely not something java as "take a .jar for android and run it on any os".. write once, run everywhere as they said :) Landry
