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From: Chris Davies <c.davies@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] phoenix/mozilla plugin compatibility
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 12:17:17
Message-Id: 1038140197.4796.3.camel@vaughan.foofalicious.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] phoenix/mozilla plugin compatibility by phoenix
1 Hi,
2
3 I tested blackdown-jdk-1.4.1_beta-r1, which works fine. and also
4 netscape-flash-6.0b-r1 which doesn't. Flash works fine with
5 mozilla/galeon, but the plugin isn't found by phoenix for reasons
6 unknown.
7
8 Thanks,
9 C.Davies
10
11
12 On Fri, 2002-11-22 at 20:42, phoenix wrote:
13 > Hey guys,
14 >
15 > i worked pretty hard to establish the phoenix/mozilla plugin
16 > compatibility. Compatibility means that both phoenix and mozilla use the
17 > same plugins. Plugins will now get installed into
18 > /usr/lib/nsbrowsers/plugins - you can use "inst_plugin()" from
19 > nsplugins.eclass to do that.
20 >
21 > If you want to do me a favour, test the following packages with phoenix
22 > and mozilla please:
23 > =app-text/acroread-5.06-r2
24 > =net-www/netscape-flash-6.0b-r1
25 > =net-www/netscape-plugger-4.0-r2
26 > =media-video/realplayer-8-r3
27 > =app-text/djvu-3.5.9-r1
28 > =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.4.1.01-r1
29 > =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.3.1.06-r1
30 > =dev-java/sun-j2sdk-1.4.0-r3
31 > =dev-java/ibm-jdk-1.3.1-r2
32 > =dev-java/ibm-jre-1.3.1-r2
33 > =dev-java/blackdown-jre-1.3.1-r8
34 > =dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.4.1_beta-r1
35 > =dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.3.1-r8
36 > (The plugins are masked in package.mask AND are in the unstable x86
37 > profile)
38 >
39 > To test them with phoenix, simply merge "phoenix-bin-20021121" (unstable
40 > x86 profile) and the plugins you want to test. Once you merged the
41 > plugins, run "/usr/bin/phoenix" and use "about:plugins" as URI in
42 > phoenix.
43 >
44 > It should show you the plugins you merged - further testing (eg.: test
45 > them with appropriate content) would be nice.
46 >
47 > Note: You'll always get the java-plugin from the latest java package you
48 > merged. Fex, if you run "emerge \=ibm-jre-1.3.1-r2" and after that
49 > "emerge \=blackdown-jdk-1.3.1-r8", you'll get the blackdown plugin.
50 > Thats a problem i'm working on right now - looks like java-config needs
51 > some modification.
52 >
53 > Report your testing process to bug 10056 please
54 > (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10056).
55 >
56 > Thanks for the help in advance,
57 > --
58 > Tilman Klar aka phoen][x
59 > Gentoo Linux Developer
60 >
61 > PGP Key:
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