Hi Aurelien, thank you for your donation from December 11th 2013, which was not forgotten. I promised true transparency and kept my word:
http://svr4.opensxce.org/RELEASE_NOTES__OpenSXCE2014.05_x86_x64_INTEL32-64_AMD32-64____sun4u_sun4v_SPARC.txt 20131211 Aurelien Larcher 100 EUR I would also like to thank the 3 fellows who paid something for FireFox 37 today: W David Pooser: 30 USD Lars-Gunnar Taube: 50 EUR Nikola M. (I guess he wants to keep his last name anonymous, so I won't post it) : 10 EUR Thank you for this! Can I pay any bills from this? No, but it still helps a minimal bit. And it shows good will. Well, I needed 1 month to get FF37 built. I shared it with the community in usable binary form. I gave some few hints. What else do folks expect from me, especially those "contributors" who told me I shall stop posting anything to this list last year (while the persons I'm referring to have _never_ contributed a single line of code to the OpenSolaris community)? Do you expect that I also upload all my patches developed in 4 or 5 weeks, plus give build hints on top of that? That would mean, I give away my life's fruits of 5 weeks (in case of FF it's only 5 weeks, the cost amounts to 10 years). Okay, why not. I do this on the very day when the first person who keeps demanding such things shares with me _his_ fruits of the same amount of time of _his_ life. How many hundred thousands would that be then? Ah, I know, that's something compleeeeeeetelyyyyyyyyy diffffferennt, righ? Other open-src developers may be in a position to do such things, because rather than his mother a true community or business is $$$ially supporting them, permitting them to pay their own electricity, health insurance and flat rent's bills. Then they are "true open src heroes". I - however - are not that lucky. All of my calls for helps have stayed unheard since 2005 (and since 2003 when I contributed CSWbochs and CSWqemu to Blastwave). Therefore I suggest OI can be happy, that or if I offer such bins for every FF release from now on. And yes, I already started the work to get flash working and as soon as I do, will offer a new package on http://opensxce.org/.FF/37/i386/ (and post a new announcement here). Everybody has been indoctrinated to hate communism. But most people reading this (not you) expect others to provide everything for free. I see a contradiction there. New binary FF releases will follow, that's the best I'm willing to upload, until my life finally gets any $$ial perspective, any tiniest bit of sustainability. Last but not least: The versions mentioned in http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Firefox are quite meaningless to getting it built. Check the 40k lines from Sun and 10k lines from NetBSD, invest a few weeks or better months (here on this slow Celeron), then you find out what is missing. Until then you can use my bins. best regards, %martin Gesendet: Dienstag, 24. März 2015 um 16:23 Uhr Von: "Aurélien Larcher" <[email protected]> An: "Discussion list for OpenIndiana" <[email protected]> Betreff: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] ANNOUNCE: gcc ported Firefox 37.0b3 now backported to snv_130 x86/x64, Should work on OI/Hipster/S11.[0-3]/S12 etc. Hi Martin, very glad to hear from you ! Thanks for your updates, I will be happy to support you again with a modest contribution. Do you see any information that we could put on this page to track patches and build notes ? http://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/Firefox Best regards, Aurélien _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
