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On 04/30/2012 10:27 PM, Stelian Ionescu wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 22:00 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote: |
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> [...] |
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>> The answer I got from Gentoo's Mozilla Team when I proposed bumping it |
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>> to latest from the Firefox tarball was that "use npapi-sdk or |
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>> spidermonkey instead". |
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>> Some which have needed more than just npapi-sdk or spidermonkey have |
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>> happily migrated to gtkhtml, or webkit-gtk. |
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>> So I don't think it really makes sense to package and **maintain** |
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>> something upstream doesn't support, therefore I'm agreeing with the |
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>> Gentoo's Mozilla Team decision on this. |
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>> So no xulrunner anymore, even if that means losing 'chmsee' and 'kiwix'. |
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> Upstream doesn't support it, but Debian, Fedora, openSuse and other |
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> distros do so the maintenance work would be shared |
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Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE as non-rolling distributions need to keep |
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Firefox up-to-date for security. |
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I suspect this is the main reason they have ended up rolling this type |
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of xulrunner package. (For backward compat.) |
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We don't really have that "problem", as we can stabilize things much |
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faster, and phase out xulrunner and it's consumers much faster. |
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