[gopher] end of OverbiteFF

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > 	https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1296885
> > 
> > Mozilla, having removed gopher in 388195 and told us to implement an addon,
> > is now saying they won't implement the continued functionality to allow us
> > to keep that addon running. I don't have much faith this will culminate in
> > a solution. Remember, they ignored us in that bug too.
> 
> Sadly, I am not surprised.

I'm talking with bz about it on the thread but bz was also sympathetic to
us in the last go-around and I imagine this isn't actually his call to make.

> [...] 
> > At that point we'll need a cross-platform client, something that doesn't
> > require any dependencies other than what it includes with it, that people
> > run preferably on Windows and Mac and build on Linux or *BSD. I'm going to
> > think about how to do that.
> 
> Would Mosaic be a good candidate for this? 

Maybe, but I'd need to do two non-trivial things:

- Get the Windows build system working
- Convert the toolkit to something non-X on Mac (it's fine as it is on Linux)

I'm considering something SDL-based since I can build SDL apps for Windows
on Mac using MXE (as well as OS X, including PowerPC), but this would
obviously be less flexible or "native."

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