[18576] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.17: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Sun Dec 3 22:39:30 2000
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@1ts.org>
Date: 03 Dec 2000 22:39:14 -0500
In-Reply-To: amu@MIT.EDU's message of "03 Dec 2000 19:51:53 -0500"
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amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko) writes:
> <daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> (Karl Ramm) writes:
>
> > If you download the linux 2.2 / libc6 version of netscape 4.7.5 from
> > ftp.netscape.com, it works fine.
> >
> > What should have happened:
> >
> > Either someone should've given up on flash, found a libc5 version of the
> > plugin, or given up on supporting netscape on libc5 systems; they're
> > definitely in the deserves-to-lose category at this point.
>
> IIRC, the version you suggest requires glibc 2.1, which means it
> breaks on machines running the SIPB release based on Red Hat 5.2.
> Given that that release is still (nominally) supported, it would be
> poor to break Netscape for it, so your plan would require more work
> for the infoagents maintainers than you might think.
Does it actually break? I have to admit I only tried it on an IS linux
machine. I also find it hard to believe that some doesn't have a
supported version of Netscape for Redhat 5.2.
It's not entirely unreasonable to think the IS might want to have multiple
version of netscape in the infoagents locker; they could, say, freeze-dry
the netscape version for older linuces and stop maintaining it for them.
It's not like they're short of disk space or anything.
Really, I'll be happy if this gets fixed for next term, esp. given that
SIPB is (planning to?) desupport the redhat 5.2-based release at the end of
IAP.
kcr
