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Google Chromium in ports now
The old version 5.x is in ports now, but with a caveat: you'll not get any security related fixes or another updates at all -- at least if you aren't a paid subscriber.
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I don't have a problem with paid development, but as I said in the PR it's bad practice for the portstree. Nowadays it's crazy to use a browser, that is out-of-date. Furthermore it doesn't make sense to support "shareware" in the ports. User installing this kind of software don't know that they will not get any security fixes or bugfixes at all.
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http://chromium.hybridsource.org/
http://chromium.hybridsource.org/port The subscription 'tree' is at Chrome 8 (trunk, clang build) and 6 (stable). The port is at the end of the line, it inherits the 'paid off development bits', so to speak. Last edited by DutchDaemon; 16th November 2010 at 11:59 PM. |
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Google Chrome for Linux makes a lot of assumptions about running on Linux, they aren't overly interested in running on other Unix-like systems.
For Windows, they wanted to make use of "technologies" available there. The same goes for the Mac and Linux ports, the Linux port just happened to be similar enough to get working on BSD.. after some rewriting and patching. This guy wants to be compensated for the work, which is perfectly understandable, and making available commercial/proprietary software in the ports trees has never been a problem for any of the BSD projects, I believe Richard Stallman has even trolled on OpenBSD's mailing lists about this before. If you don't want to pay the guy then you have other options available:
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To further clarify, but are you sure the port has vulnerabilities? according to this guys site he's going to be maintaining this official port.. it isn't being pulled directly from the chromium site but his own where he rolled his own distfile.
Do you believe he isn't backporting security/stability fixes for "free" users? because it certainly looks like that's his plan. http://chromium.hybridsource.org/issues |
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>If you don't want to pay the guy then you have other options available As I said, I have no problem with paid development. But the portstree is no appstore. So if he wants to get paid, then he should push his port to a _final_ status and then submit it to the portstree. I already spoke with different people from FreeBSD about this matter and they find it at least bewildering. Again, I asked the guy about his agenda regarding this port and you'll find his answer in the quote above or if you're following this url to the PR: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/146302 >Roll up your sleeves and start working on porting the latest Chromium code to FreeBSD, submit an updated port. Btw. I don't think you really get it. I don't want Chromium, but this port is a big mistake and the portstree is the wrong place for a paid development a la "Microsoft Windows shareware".
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use UNIX or die :-) Last edited by Oliver_H; 16th October 2010 at 01:48 PM. Reason: addendum |
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One beauty of open source, if you don't support it on platfomr Z but it rocks, perhaps some nerd will take a stab at fixing your bungles. A lot of people still seem live in a "Well, it works on MY workstation!" world rather than a "Holy crap, this thing is as portable as the C standard!", no body knows which extreme is worse.
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Personally I have no problem with the guy for wanting to be compensated for his efforts. It ain't a quick 'make' and pray operation. If the same person is doing the subscriber thing and maintaining the port on FreeBSD however, *that* I would call an alarming conflict of interest. In my eyes if you can't solidly maintain a port, you shouldn't be submitting it to the main ports tree. By solidly maintain, I mean stick with it and push out the work promptly. The way the subscribing thing is working and the way FreeBSD ports works (hell, just look at broken and forbidden incidents), I don't really think it matters though. The port is of what he's 'released' to the general public in a manor fit for inclusion as it is. Life sucks, what else is new?
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