Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by jcranmer on Saturday January 11, 2020 @08:26PM
(#22023770)
> For example, Chromium. Any BSD developer would know that attempting to upstream their port there is dead in the water. AFAICT, They Chromium devs only care about Win, Mac, Linux and nothing else. Likewise for Firefox, which is why the BSDs don't get official releases.
Firefox does maintain ports for the BSDs. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598511, an OpenBSD-only issue, was fixed less than a month ago.
The BSDs qualify as "Tier 3" in Mozilla's build terminology, which means that the onus is on external contributors to identify problems and propose fixes, as there is no continuous integration support for these architectures.
Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by clarry on Sunday January 12, 2020 @06:46AM
(#22025837)
> The BSDs qualify as "Tier 3" in Mozilla's build terminology, which means that the onus is on external contributors to identify problems and propose fixes, as there is no continuous integration support for these architectures.
In other words, Firefox doesn't maintain the port for OpenBSD, OpenBSD developers do.
Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by floatboth on Sunday January 12, 2020 @07:16AM
(#22025945)
> Likewise for Firefox, which is why the BSDs don't get official releases
We mostly don't want official releases, we prefer our package managers.
Firefox is absolutely not like Chromium, Mozilla is very good at accepting patches and the upstream repo pretty much always works on FreeBSD. Just git/hg clone and ./mach build and here it is.
Re:OpenBSD won't update Firefox, advises users to switch to ESR
by inferiorhuman on Sunday January 12, 2020 @02:54AM
(#22025097)
By extension this also renders things like Electron unsupported on the BSDs.
For example, Chromium. Any BSD developer would know that attempting to upstream their port there is dead in the water. AFAICT, They Chromium devs only care about Win, Mac, Linux and nothing else. Likewise for Firefox, which is why the BSDs don't get official releases.
I feel some sympathy for OSes like the BSDs that for "some" software they are limited by the arrogance of other open-source maintainers who would rather go for maintaining the convoluted distros and testing with a huge disintegrated software-stack than testing a single unified OS which the BSDs maintain themselves.