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From: Stelian Ionescu <sionescu@××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite app-text/chmsee. Semi-lastrite libopensync-plugin-google-calendar.
Date: Mon, 30 Apr 2012 19:29:25
Message-Id: 1335814067.26630.3.camel@cathai
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Lastrite app-text/chmsee. Semi-lastrite libopensync-plugin-google-calendar. by Samuli Suominen
1 On Mon, 2012-04-30 at 22:00 +0300, Samuli Suominen wrote:
2 [...]
3 > The answer I got from Gentoo's Mozilla Team when I proposed bumping it
4 > to latest from the Firefox tarball was that "use npapi-sdk or
5 > spidermonkey instead".
6 >
7 > Some which have needed more than just npapi-sdk or spidermonkey have
8 > happily migrated to gtkhtml, or webkit-gtk.
9 >
10 > So I don't think it really makes sense to package and **maintain**
11 > something upstream doesn't support, therefore I'm agreeing with the
12 > Gentoo's Mozilla Team decision on this.
13 > So no xulrunner anymore, even if that means losing 'chmsee' and 'kiwix'.
14
15 Upstream doesn't support it, but Debian, Fedora, openSuse and other
16 distros do so the maintenance work would be shared
17
18 --
19 Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
20 Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum videtur.
21 http://common-lisp.net/project/iolib

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