[aur-general] [flock] drop to AUR
Hey guys, I'd like to drop flock [1] (some social web browser) to AUR soon, if any of you want to continue to support it in community, be my guest. The reason I want to remove it is that I'm fed up with the company developing it. For years communicating with them hasn't been a pleasure. E-mails don't get answered, forum posts only if you ask something they like to answer. A few years ago they removed the source code only to add it to some svn server which they did not document and it took quite some time for somebody to tell me where I could find the source. Then all of a sudden they disabled public svn access and put some source tarballs up somewhere, of course agains without documentation and you have to hunt the link down somewhere in their forum in a reply to someone. They also removed the developer portal from their site. Need more reasons? Last month they released a brand new deprecated version based on the firefox 3.0 unmaintained code. Security anyone? Of course the source was only made available quite some time after the binaries were released. Their next upcoming browser, which they indicated would be based on firefox 3.5/3.6 for the last year, will suddenly be based upon chromium and is currently available in beta for windows and mac osx coming sometime later this month as they say. I have no idea if they will ever release a binary i686 linux version, nor if they will be releasing the source code anytime soon (if they are required to do so based upon the chromium license?). So even if they release the source code I'm not sure if it will be even remotely compatible with our libs or requires massive patching. I suppose I could go on, but that's the main reason I'd like to drop it. Ronald [1] http://www.flock.com/
On 07/21/2010 11:24 AM, Ronald van Haren wrote:
Hey guys,
I'd like to drop flock [1] (some social web browser) to AUR soon, if any of you want to continue to support it in community, be my guest.
The reason I want to remove it is that I'm fed up with the company developing it. For years communicating with them hasn't been a pleasure. E-mails don't get answered, forum posts only if you ask something they like to answer. A few years ago they removed the source code only to add it to some svn server which they did not document and it took quite some time for somebody to tell me where I could find the source. Then all of a sudden they disabled public svn access and put some source tarballs up somewhere, of course agains without documentation and you have to hunt the link down somewhere in their forum in a reply to someone. They also removed the developer portal from their site. Need more reasons? Last month they released a brand new deprecated version based on the firefox 3.0 unmaintained code. Security anyone? Of course the source was only made available quite some time after the binaries were released. Their next upcoming browser, which they indicated would be based on firefox 3.5/3.6 for the last year, will suddenly be based upon chromium and is currently available in beta for windows and mac osx coming sometime later this month as they say. I have no idea if they will ever release a binary i686 linux version, nor if they will be releasing the source code anytime soon (if they are required to do so based upon the chromium license?). So even if they release the source code I'm not sure if it will be even remotely compatible with our libs or requires massive patching.
I suppose I could go on, but that's the main reason I'd like to drop it.
Ronald
i'll vote from removing entirely. they dropped support for firefox and the build is useless for newer versions -- Ionuț
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 11:32:15 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
i'll vote from removing entirely. they dropped support for firefox and the build is useless for newer versions I agree.
-- andreascarpino.it Arch Linux Developer
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:41:07 +0200 Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 11:32:15 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
i'll vote from removing entirely. they dropped support for firefox and the build is useless for newer versions I agree. Me too, as anyone who wants to update it has to rewrite the PKGBUILD anyway it doesn't make sense to reupload it to the AUR. +1
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On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Thorsten Töpper <atsutane@freethoughts.de> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:41:07 +0200 Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 11:32:15 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
i'll vote from removing entirely. they dropped support for firefox and the build is useless for newer versions I agree. Me too, as anyone who wants to update it has to rewrite the PKGBUILD anyway it doesn't make sense to reupload it to the AUR. +1
-- Jabber: atsutane@freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4
okay, I was just thinking maybe someone wants to update to 2.6.1 and feels the inspiration to patch some deprecated at release time code. I'll remove it, if someone needs it I'll keep a local copy around for some time. Ronald
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:49 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Thorsten Töpper <atsutane@freethoughts.de> wrote:
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:41:07 +0200 Andrea Scarpino <andrea@archlinux.org> wrote:
On Wednesday 21 July 2010 11:32:15 Ionuț Bîru wrote:
i'll vote from removing entirely. they dropped support for firefox and the build is useless for newer versions I agree. Me too, as anyone who wants to update it has to rewrite the PKGBUILD anyway it doesn't make sense to reupload it to the AUR. +1
-- Jabber: atsutane@freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4
okay, I was just thinking maybe someone wants to update to 2.6.1 and feels the inspiration to patch some deprecated at release time code. I'll remove it, if someone needs it I'll keep a local copy around for some time.
Ronald
done, removed from repos and svn.
participants (4)
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Andrea Scarpino
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Ionuț Bîru
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Ronald van Haren
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Thorsten Töpper