[OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.

[Carsten Grzemba]

On openCSW we discussed</x> the need to provide packages for FF, OOO</x> and other desktop applications. 
We have decided it not to do because</x> of the limited resources and the avilibility of other packages for FF and OO.
The focus should be on server applications.
But my personal experience shows that for the FF better integrated would be desirable. So the CUPS print backend does not work out of the box and FF can not start evince for PDF documents when it has already loaded libs which are incompatible with the evince build (pango, atk, ...)

Carsten 

Am 10.02.13 schrieb cpforum  <cpforum at orange.fr>:
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> > Message du 10/02/13 12:13
> > De : "Udo Grabowski (IMK)" 
> > A : "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" 
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> > Objet : Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.
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> > On 02/10/13 11:03 AM, cpforum wrote:
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> > >> Message du 10/02/13 05:03
> > >> De : "Ian Collins"
> > >> A : "Discussion list for OpenIndiana"
> > >> Copie à :
> > >> Objet : Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] abandoned support for OpenOffice, Miozilla Firefox, Adobe Flash, etc.
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> > >> jlane59 at cox.net wrote:
> > >>> For your consideration:
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> > >>> Support for several programs that I really enjoy has been
> > >>> discontinued for the OpenSolaris / OpenIndiana platforms. It won't
> > >>> be long before FireFox 3.6.12 becomes unacceptably obsolete ... and
> > >>> OpenOffice 3.1.0 ... and Thunderbird 3.2.4 ... and Adobe Flash ...
> > >>> and ?? The unfortunate result is that with no continuing support from
> > >>> software providers, OpenIndiana is gradually drifting toward
> > >>> obsolescence.
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> > >> What's wrong with contrib releases on
> > >> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases
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> > > ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ is a better link. Solaris is in the contrib directory.
> > > This link offers for exemple 17.0.2esr or 18.0.1 releases (no esr with http link).
> > > I agree that not offering an up todate release inside openindiana IPS (there is no need
> > > to update local language with ESR releases) makes it not very user friendly.
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> > It may be advisable to stick to the 17.xESR release, as
> > the 18.x branch is heavily broken.
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> All mozilla firefox releases are stable for me.
> The reason to stick to ESR is that language file stays the same.
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> Last 17.0.2esr for opensolaris is not in release directory and stay here :
> ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/17.0.2esr-candidates/build2/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/
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