XULRunner in rawhide

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Thu Nov 15 11:44:09 UTC 2007


On 11/15/2007 09:56 AM, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On Nov 14, 2007 2:41 PM, Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> wrote:
>> Um, did you read the article?  Specifically the "What are we doing?"
>> opening text and the third bullet point underneath it?
> 
> 
> firefox as shipped in Fedora, isn't what I'm most concerned about.
> I'm pretty confident that for firefox in Fedora has a roadmap on how
> handle the maintenance burden of a firefox package that diverges from
> upstream development over the course of a Fedora release cycle.
> 
> What I am really concerned about is the other gecko lib based
> applications we have.  xulrunner is a clear win for these applications
> but only if the upstream developers for these applications are ready
> to make use of xulrunner. We've been talking about xulrunner since F8
> testing started.  I would have hoped that the maintainers for
> applications that depend on gecko-libs would know by now if the
> upstream projects are ready to support xulrunner.

Most of them ought to be using gtkmozembed which should not be that 
affected by the xulrunner changes too much.




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