Possible fun project/todo list item?

[Steven Edwards]

--- Mike Hearn <m.hearn at signal.qinetiq.com> wrote:
> LOCATIONS="/usr/lib/mozilla /usr/lib/mozilla-* /usr/lib/firefox-* 
> /usr/lib/netscape /usr/lib/opera /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird 
> /usr/lib/firefox /usr/local/netscape /usr/local/mozilla 
> /usr/local/MozillaFirebird /usr/local/firefox /opt/mozilla
> /opt/netscape 
> /opt/MozillaFirebird /opt/firefox"
> 
> Eek! That's pretty much the definition of "bad hack" if I ever saw
> one.

Yeah. I guess it could be reduced to this but its still a hack.

LOCATIONS="/usr/lib/mozilla /usr/lib/mozilla-* /usr/lib/firefox-*
/usr/lib/netscape /usr/lib/firefox /usr/local/netscape
/usr/local/mozilla /usr/local/firefox /opt/mozilla /opt/netscape 
/opt/MozillaFirebird /opt/firefox"
 
> It also doesn't get away from the totally non-intuitive relationship 
> between "I upgraded my web browser and now I can't run <insert
> favourite 
> SSL using app here>".

Well NSS has been stable for a long time and has a nice regression
suite from what I have read. I dont see why updating the browser would
break it.

> But, still, I'm not the one who's going to do the work, so take my 
> opinion with a pinch of salt :)

Maybe we should just import one of them either gnutls or nss and be
done with it. I guess thats Alexandres call.

Thanks
Steven



		
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