XULRunner - will be or won't be?

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Thu Jun 28 18:28:01 UTC 2007


Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>> This is not a big enough change to warrant that IMO though.  It won't 
>> be any more newsworthy than any other firefox release.  It will be 
>> done sooner rather than later.  Probably by next week, although having 
>> to send my status updates on a tiny project like this isn't helping me 
>> get it done faster.
> 
> This goes to the heart of the problem. You don't consider the changes 
> important but it is. Firefox related changes are BIG news.

Please stop misinterpreting things.  I never said it was not important. 
  I am saying that it is not any more important than going from 2.0.0.0 
to 2.0.0.4.  It will require an equivalent amount of work: this is 
essentially just a version upgrade.

Almost all the upstreams I know that care about this have already been 
supporting XULrunner for well over a year now, and Novell has shipped an 
alpha version in their experimental branches, and Gentoo and I think 
Ubuntu has shipped it, and believe it or not, upstream has been rather 
good about helping projects work with XULRunner.  It's finally in a 
state where I'm ready to say it will cause little damage and that is why 
it is going into Fedora now.

> How many 
> times were we asked when Firefox 2 was going to be in Fedora Core 6?  I 
> must have answered it atleast half a dozen times. So many that I had to 
> write down a explanation on why and point users from several places to 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox2.

And how many complaints have we had about metacity not doing enough to 
suit people's uber configuration needs?  Or about someone not liking a 
theme or artwork?  People will always find something to complain about 
but I'm glad that I was at least able to help fulfill your wiki page 
writing desires.

So fine.  You win.  Please put up a wiki page that says that XULRunner 
will be included in the next week or so.  My real deadline is July 12, 
which is the day before I leave for GUADEC but I expect it sooner. 
That's really all I have to say about it right now and I'd rather spend 
time doing the work than writing up about it or wasting another second 
on this thread.




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