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On 10/22/2012 02:29 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> On 22/10/12 03:52, Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn wrote: |
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>> Jauhien Piatlicki schrieb: |
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>>> Both firefox and thunderbird have xul library. Before there was |
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>>> a separate package xulrunner in the tree, but as Mozilla does |
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>>> not provide it as a separate package now (as far as I remember) |
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>>> both firefox and thunderbird use there own libxul.so. |
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>> That is not correct. Mozilla does provide xulrunner, released in |
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>> sync with firefox versions: |
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>> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/releases/ |
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>> |
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>> It was decided some time ago to remove xulrunner from Gentoo |
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>> (bug 403415). |
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> Please note that I've helped with that bug only to get rid of the |
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> ***ancient vulnerable*** copies of xulrunner from tree |
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> This is actually news to me that they ship separate xulrunner |
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> still. |
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> |
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> The Gentoo mozilla@ members led me to believe it would need to be |
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> splitted from Firefox instead -- and that webkit-gtk, webkit-qt, |
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> spidermonkey, and npapi-sdk would serve the purpose instead. |
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> |
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> And well, indeed, we managed to convert into those by only |
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> lastriting *one* ancient application from tree. |
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> |
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> But if there are still new applications out that still want to use |
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> the actual libxul and co. I have no objections whatsoever in |
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> reintroducing it with up-to-date version in tree. However, Gentoo |
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> @mozilla team might disagree. |
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>> |
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>>> It seems this is the same library (Or am I wrong?). So may be |
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>>> it could be splitted into a separate package? (The reason is |
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>>> its compilation takes a lot of time on week machines and |
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>>> compiling it one time would be better than twice). Also as far |
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>>> as I can see xulrunner is splitted into a separate package in |
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>>> Debian and at least Iceweasel uses it. |
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>> |
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>> Building firefox, thunderbird or seamonkey against xulrunner is |
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>> possible, but not a supported configuration by Mozilla. |
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> |
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> Upstreams know best. Not. Now after hearing all this, it seems the |
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> mozilla team went wrong direction -- As in, instead of helping to |
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> get rid of the old xulrunner from tree, I should have been putting |
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> my time in adding the updated xulrunner to tree... |
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> A bit disappointing overall. |
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> - Samuli |
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Goes to show you do not understand what you are talking about. The |
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only way to use libxul from version 5 on would have been to provide a |
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symlink into firefox/thunderbird/seamonkey as the system gre was |
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killed. This prevents any clean upgrade path hense the removal. |
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Jory A. Pratt |
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Gentoo Linux: Developer, Mozilla Lead |
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E-Mail : anarchy@g.o |
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