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Dave Yeo:
I've uploaded an experimental build of SeaMonkey 2.42.9ESR, https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/seamonkey-2.42.9esr.en-US.os2_exp1.zip
Optimized for size instead of performance, should fit into memory a bit better and almost as fast. Also optimized for a Pentium M so needs a CPU with SSE2 support.
You could also install it as if it was an RPM, putting everything in @UNIXROOT/usr/lib/seamonkey-2.42.9esr and a copy of seamonkey.exe in @UNIXROOT/usr/bin so it is on the PATH.
Same codebase as the latest release of Firefox. Once dmik releases another version of Firefox, I'll release the usual i686 build and if I ever get some guidance on building an RPM, I'll try to release them as well.
Needs the latest libcx and libc that are now available on netlabs-release RPM repository (I hope).

Note there also seems to be a regression with highmem support, marking xul.dll to load code and data makes SM unstable here on ArcaOS.

Rich Walsh:

--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on November 26, 2017, 05:57:19 am ---I've uploaded an experimental build of SeaMonkey 2.42.9ESR, https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/seamonkey-2.42.9R2esr.en-US.os2_exp1.zip

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The link does not point at your new build. It is identical to your build of August 17, 2017.

Also, this is OS/2 where the mozapps were specifically designed to be installed wherever the user chooses. Why would anyone advocate confining them to the bloated and largely pointless @unixroot tree unless absolutely necessary? Group-think? A fondness for arrogant and authoritarian mindset that BWW unfailingly displays?

These types who go on and on and on about their unyielding hostility to any semblance of a unix directory structure certainly are tiresome (in extremis), but they do have a point. Me, I'll say it only once:  ONU !!!!

Dave Yeo:

--- Quote from: Rich Walsh on November 26, 2017, 05:41:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on November 26, 2017, 05:57:19 am ---I've uploaded an experimental build of SeaMonkey 2.42.9ESR, https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/seamonkey-2.42.9R2esr.en-US.os2_exp1.zip

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The link does not point at your new build. It is identical to your build of August 17, 2017.

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You're right, somehow I uploaded the wrong binary, I'll blame the crappy interface on the phone, though I'm to blame for not double checking. I'll delete the binary and re-upload when I get the chance.


--- Quote ---Also, this is OS/2 where the mozapps were specifically designed to be installed wherever the user chooses. Why would anyone advocate confining them to the bloated and largely pointless @unixroot tree unless absolutely necessary? Group-think? A fondness for arrogant and authoritarian mindset that BWW unfailingly displays?

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There's no reason that this can't be installed anywhere, it just also has the option of being installed in @UNIXROOT, which will be needed as Arca Noae eventually wants a RPM, and with all the dependencies, an RPM does make installation easier.
I don't like where development of Mozilla has gone and I did try to upload statically linked binaries for as long as I could, and did things like put sydney audio back in when Bitwise didn't care enough to support sound.
Unluckily, with the direction that Mozilla has gone with Firefox, the need for fixes to the build tools,things like a Python that correctly does the virtual environment thing and the ever increasing list of dependencies and things like NSPR being forked, it has become easier to just follow along with Bitwise and ArcaOS which has become heavily dependent on RPMs.


--- Quote ---These types who go on and on and on about their unyielding hostility to any semblance of a unix directory structure certainly are tiresome (in extremis), but they do have a point. Me, I'll say it only once:  ONU !!!!

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Dave Yeo:
Hopefully the link is fixed.

Lars:

--- Quote from: Rich Walsh on November 26, 2017, 05:41:27 pm ---
--- Quote from: Dave Yeo on November 26, 2017, 05:57:19 am ---I've uploaded an experimental build of SeaMonkey 2.42.9ESR, https://bitbucket.org/dryeo/dry-comm-esr31/downloads/seamonkey-2.42.9R2esr.en-US.os2_exp1.zip

--- End quote ---

The link does not point at your new build. It is identical to your build of August 17, 2017.

Also, this is OS/2 where the mozapps were specifically designed to be installed wherever the user chooses. Why would anyone advocate confining them to the bloated and largely pointless @unixroot tree unless absolutely necessary? Group-think? A fondness for arrogant and authoritarian mindset that BWW unfailingly displays?

These types who go on and on and on about their unyielding hostility to any semblance of a unix directory structure certainly are tiresome (in extremis), but they do have a point. Me, I'll say it only once:  ONU !!!!

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It's funny that you say that. I thought it was AN's idea to come up with the splendid "sys", "etc" and "usr" directories.
As arrogant and authoritarian BWW might be: if they pull the plug on application development for OS/2 then ArcaOS is dead in 2 years flat.

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