Hi all,
As you may have noticed there is a new version of the Midori browser.
This new version is an almost complete rewrite based on Gecko (it really
looks like a fork of Firefox LTS, looking at the new source code),
published by a new entity that acquired the project some time ago. [1] [2]
I asked on the XFCE mailing list if there still was any connection
between XFCE and the Midori project and they confirmed there is no such
relation anymore [3] (this was already clear from the wikipedia page,
but I wanted some confirmation).
Based on this I am planning to put the port back i the pull of
unmaintained ports, removing it from under the XFCE hat.
If there are objections please state them in a reply.
I'll also give a shot at a final update to a current version before
removing it from xfce@ maintainership. But since this is a complete
rewrite using gecko, it looks like a difficult update and I am not sure
I can succeed by myself.
Thanks in advance for any feedback!
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(web_browser)
[2] https://astian.org/midori-browser/
[3] https://mail.xfce.org/pipermail/xfce/2023-October/038165.html
P.S. the new project maintainers still state that this is a "lightweight
browser". Considering that it is based on Gecko, and that, in the
current time frame, "light weight" is not really an option for a
standard compliant browser, I'd really think they should drop that from
the description. But, since they use it, in my attempt to update the
port I will keep such wording in pkg-descr, although I tend to mildly
disagree.
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Guido Falsi <madpi...@freebsd.org>
