On Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:19:28 +0200
geos@epost.de (Georg Schwarz) wrote:

> It looks like www/Mosaic has been removed from pkgsrc. I still have the
> directory, but unfortunately not the pkgsrc patches.

You updated w/o -dP, right?

> Are they still
> available somewhere?

Yes, in CVS.  Just update that directory with the right date, before its
removal.

> With some minor modification I got Mosaic to build on my Indigo running
> IRIX 5.3 (actually the second browser I managed to build after lynx). 
> Surely it is pretty much unusable these days, but it nicely reminds me
> of how things were back in ca. 1994 or so..
> Anyway, is there maybe some nostalgia section of pkgsrc that still keeps
> such stuff? I understand that this is not the software you want for
> modern production systems, but nevertheless I find it sad to see it
> getting kicked out.

Search the tech-pkg@ archives; there was some discussion about which packages
should be removed, together with some reasons, and one of them was Mosaic.
This happened before the 2004Q2 branch was created, IIRC.

Cheers

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