[gentoo-dev] Mozilla 1.5-r1 marked stable on x86

[Brad Laue]

Mozilla 1.5 is now stable on x86; some notes for everyone interested..

It took a few weeks to make sure the ebuild wouldn't be rough around the
edges, as some things people have come to expect no longer quite behaved
the same. Thanks to everyone for waiting ;)

The access-builtin extension doesn't build properly as a number of
header files on which it depends have been retired upstream; a warning
has been placed in the ebuild regarding the building of non-default
extensions, just to let everyone know they were never really guaranteed
to work outside of the core build.

Also, SVG support; SVG code in Mozilla versions after August 2002 use
old SVG rendering code, which has to be derived from CVS and isn't
likely to be terribly useful to people who want to view SVG anyway.

If you would like to see the old code re-enabled in the mozilla ebuilds,
drop me a line; I'm working on importing a snapshot of the newer SVG
code from www.mozilla.org/projects/svg/ with some of the developers of
that project in a future revision of mozilla-1.5.

For those using non-x86 architectures, I've replaced 1.4-r3 out of
consideration for the developers who may not be able to set aside time
to immediately begin testing and marking newer versions of mozilla
stable. Apologies to those who briefly saw portage wanting to revert
them to mozilla 1.3.

For users of SPARC, PowerPC, Alpha, AMD64 and other Gentoo-supported
architectures, support your developers by testing this ebuild and
reporting its functionality to your architecture maintainers so they can
combine that with their own experiences and begin moving this version to
stable.

Arch maintainers, please begin testing this ebuild!

Cheers all,
Brad


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