RHEL firefox 1.5 -> 3.0
Orion Poplawski
orion at cora.nwra.com
Thu Jul 17 16:04:13 UTC 2008
Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM, <orion at cora.nwra.com> wrote:
>> Is anyone else surprised about this move? It appears to have broken IDL
>> on 5.2.
>>
>
> Not really. Red Hat (CentOS's upstream) announced early on in the 5.x
> series that they would move to firefox 3.0 when it was ready. The Red
> Hat 5.2 beta had firefox-3.0 in it, and it had been discussed on this
> list before.
Well, not so much surprised by the appearance as surprised by the
decision to make a change that was likely to cause incompatibilities
with software built against 1.5. I moved to EL versions to try to avoid
such things...
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