[18842] in Athena Bugs
Re: sun4 8.4.20: netscape
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Thu Mar 1 14:07:20 2001
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:06:42 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Kev <klmitch@mit.edu>
cc: "Loriann S.K. Higashi" <lhigashi@mit.edu>, <bugs@mit.edu>
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Right, but that doesn't seem to me like enough reason to prevent people
who only use the local plugin on one platform from being able to do it.
On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Kev wrote:
>
> > This occurs because we have, until now, deliberately excluded the
> > ~/.netscape/plugins directory from the plugin path! This is a very old
> > part of the 'netscape' wrapper script; when I queried people, no one could
> > remember why we did it, and so much else of our setup has changed since
> > then that the reasons may no longer be applicable.
>
> I would guess that it's related to the fact that a plugin compiled for the
> Linux systems is not liable to work when you're running Netscape on a Sun
> or an SGI.
> --
> Kevin L. Mitchell <klmitch@mit.edu>
>
>
