[2772] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Netscape... and, Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Barker)
Wed Jun 6 23:47:21 2001
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Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2001 23:20:34 -0400
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
From: Mike Barker <mbarker@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Theresa M Regan <tregan@mit.edu>, f_l@mit.edu, tbelton@mit.edu,
release-team@mit.edu, lisanti@mit.edu, aui@mit.edu
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Actually, I would like to ask that Netscape 3 be removed. As I remember,
the java support in it isn't, and there are other significant shortcomings
compared to later versions. As the EMCC is one of the groups that has to
write things to work with ALL the supported versions, removing old versions
would be helpful (gives us a narrower group of necessary tests).
Mike
At 10:20 PM 6/6/2001 +0000, Bill Cattey wrote:
>A pre-emptive strike on closing this issue.
>
>I'd said:
>
> So yes, Netscape 3 is an "option". Why is this a problem? Should
> we ask the Faculty Liaison's to remove Netscape 3 from Dash?
>
>Theresa:
>
>Don't bother thinking about answering my question unless the following
>answer in unacceptable: (This supplied by Heather Anne during Release
>Team.)
>
>Netscape 3 was originally offered in dash because it was felt that there
>were users with very old systems who were at that time unable to
>convert. The plan is to discontinue offering Netscape 3 in the Athena
>9.0 GNOME panel, but not to bother removing it from the Dash menus.
>
>-wdc
