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

[1] http://www.flock.com/

i'll vote from removing entirely. they dropped support for firefox and the build is useless for newer versions -- Ionuț