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Re: What's up with Mozilla



On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 09:11:09PM -0800, Aaron Brashears wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 27, 2001 at 11:05:42AM -0800, Greg Gilbert wrote:
> > What's going on with Mozilla packages. Sid still has Mozilla M18,
> > and the maintainer seems to be ignoring all requests for an upgrade
> > to something more recent(Like 0.8). Has the package been orphaned or
> > something?
> 
> As was said in another reply - packaging mozilla is hard. However,
> installing the tarball is pretty easy. For now, I'm running 0.8 from
> the tarball available at mozilla.org and it works great.

I think one of the big problems is it's brain damaged assumptions about
user permissions.  It's listed as a bug...

Mozilla 0.8 is much better than previous builds.  It still makes
Netscrape 4.76 look trim though...

-- 
Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>



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