On 11.12.19 10:32, Till Wegmüller  <[email protected]> wrote: 
> 
> I concur. Some politeness goes a long way. This problem with the license
> requirements however stems from firefox originally. Only that in
> firefox'es case they fought with the debian community and lost. It seems
> like the Palemoon community needs to have the same experience. Sadly....
> 
> Anyhow. Thanks for the work on Palemoon and bringing it to the point of
> being distributed as binary. If you would like to contribute more to
> OpenIndiana and learn how the oi-userland build system works have a look
> at the developers corner in the docs [0]
> 
> Manifest files (p5m) are usually genered with the make target
> "sample-manifest" and then have some small changes added on top. If any
> special cases are required we point them out during Merging of the Pull
> Request.
> 
> We would greatly welcome if you worked on more packages.
> 
> Greetings
> Till
> 
> 
> [0] http://docs.openindiana.org/dev/userland/
> 
> On 11.12.19 09:40, Alexander Pyhalov via oi-dev wrote:
> > Hi.
> > I was a bit of uncomfortable to point to this issue, but as others already 
> > mention this, let this be settled. We will not distribute Pale Moon via OI 
> > infrastructure. If someone has free cycles, I'd advice him to look at FF 
> > component, which needs some love.
> > 
> > Best regards,
> > Alexander Pyhalov,
> > system administrator of Southern Federal University IT department
> > 
> > ________________________________________
> > От: Adam Števko <[email protected]>
> > Отправлено: 11 декабря 2019 г. 11:36
> > Кому: OpenIndiana Developer mailing list
> > Тема: Re: [oi-dev] Would OI be interested in Pale Moon?
> > 
> > Thanks Michal for pointing that out. I wasn’t aware of that. Additional 
> > reason to avoid it then :)
> > 
> >> On 11 Dec 2019, at 09:22, Michal Nowak via oi-dev <[email protected]> 
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 12/11/19 07:38 AM, Jeremy Andrews wrote:
> >>> I ported UXP to illumos and Solaris recently, and I got them to take the
> >>> code upstream. I'm pretty anxious about the process now honestly, and
> >>> really want everything to work out. There are a few things I'm worried
> >>> about, though.
> >>> 1. I'm not very familiar with how packages are actually packaged for OI,
> >>> and the p5m file for Firefox in particular is... so complicated that
> >>> I've been holding off creating a Pale Moon system package for OI until
> >>> now, when they're pushing me to try. I was hoping that the subject
> >>> wouldn't come up and they'd just want to distribute a binary .tar.xz
> >>> file like they do for other operating systems (that kind of package is
> >>> very easy to create with a single command). I'm so mixed up because the
> >>> .p5m file for Firefox 52 looks so different from the one for Firefox 60,
> >>> and includes all these header files, is for 32-bit, etc. And I'm trying
> >>> to figure out which differences are due to a change in package design,
> >>> and which are due to actual differences in Firefox.
> >>> 2. Pale Moon has some unusual requirements. For one thing, it can't use
> >>> the system NSS because Mozilla has changed the API somewhat since they
> >>> forked. In general, they're leery of using system libraries over the
> >>> ones in their own tree because sometimes those libraries have to be
> >>> modified in specific ways for the browser. On top of that, they seem to
> >>> have a problem with distributing the langpacks with the browser. They
> >>> have a site where you can download a langpack of your choice, but you
> >>> can't ship it with the browser for some reason.
> >>> I'm kind of afraid now that I've done all this for nothing. I'm worried
> >>> that their packaging requirements and our packaging requirements may not
> >>> line up, and I'll wind up only being able to distribute a tarball on my
> >>> own web space that no one will ever download. It's a very good browser,
> >>> and the people behind it are actually decent people, but... I'm
> >>> overwhelmed with the sense that I've gotten in over my head.
> >>
> >> Given the hostility Pale Moon developers showed towards a license 
> >> non-complying OpenBSD port at 
> >> https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86, I'd rather avoid this 
> >> community at all.
> >>
> >> The other reason is maintenance cost on the OpenIndiana project. We 
> >> already have Firefox and due to it's complexity it gives us hard time to 
> >> keep-up even with ESR releases (currently we are stuck at version 60, 68 
> >> is the latest one; the story for the 52->60 transition was the same). Same 
> >> with Thunderbird. I am afraid Pale Moon would be another chapter of the 
> >> very same story.
> >>
> >> Michal
> >>
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get we rid of the rust lang monster there? I would it prefer to the FF.
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