[4199] in Release_7.7_team
Re: Mozilla Firebird
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Jan 23 18:09:51 2004
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: Alan Chu <alanchu@mit.edu>
Cc: release-team@mit.edu
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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 18:09:32 -0500
Hi,
Thanks for asking. (It's gratifying to hear from people interested in
the ongoing evolution of Athena.)
At this point "Support for Firebird" would mean changing from Mozilla as
the supported Athena browser to Firebird. (We really only have the
resources to integrate and support ONE preferred browser as part of the
Athena release.)
Offering Firebird in a locker on a "best efforts" basis is a
possibility, but keeping Mozilla working pretty much sucks up the lion's
share of our browser support resources. I see SIPB (The Student
Information Processing Board) has a firebird locker with Solaris and
Linux binaries. I've not tried them so I don't know what state they're
in, but you could probably try them yourself or contact the
maintainers. (With a little poking around, I see user names ppham,
mkkusid, cfdoming associated with the files.)
Firebird is very new. There's not even a 1.0 release. Also, I expect
as with so much of the free software out there, stable operation under
Solaris will not come until the Linux version is rock steady.
The vision of a tightly focused web browser with high performance is a
good one. We're watching Firebird as it evolves. As to "ever"? Well
that depends on how a lot of stuff evolves over the future. Right now
firebird is not yet ready for prime time, but it might eventually get
there.
For now, we're doing what other individuals are doing: trying out the
betas, and keeping an open mind.
Does this help?
-wdc
On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 13:58, Alan Chu wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Will Mozilla Firebird ever be available for Solaris (on Athena)?
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
