On: Thunderbird.net Has a New Look

[mrpippy]

It’s in FreeBSD ports, what’s wrong with that?

https://www.freshports.org/mail/thunderbird/

[doublerabbit → mrpippy]

Nothing wrong, but why isn't the package listed upon Thunderbird's website, nor created officially when they do so for Linux?

[prmoustache → doublerabbit]

From someone who complain abouy FreeBSD haters you seem very little informed on what is FreeBSD, how the project is organized and how people typically install software on it.

[doublerabbit → prmoustache]

I am well aware that I could do "pkg install thunderbird" or use ports.

My own preference is to explore the repo and compile it from the repo itself. Do you have a problem with that?

[prmoustache → doublerabbit]

>My own preference is to explore the repo and compile it from the repo itself. Do you have a problem with that?

You are shifting the goal post. You don't need a prepackaged FreeBSD release for that, you can pull the sources from mozilla's mercurial repo.

[doublerabbit → prmoustache]

Not at all, reread my post.

> It's disappointing for that there is no FreeBSD release nor any easy way to find the source for that matter.

The point I'm making their were no packages for FreeBSD nor any easy listing of accessing the source.

The GitHub repo I found, did not contain nor was I aware that Mozilla uses Mercurial. Precompiled packages exist for Linux, but not FreeBSD outside of the FreeBSD port system. Not even a mention.

[prmoustache → doublerabbit]

I agree the information about the location of the source code is buried in the developer doc that you access when hitting contribute. I think an open source product could do better and make the source code more easily accessible.