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In <gl0vo0$mpe$3@×××××××××.org>, |
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Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 2009-01-18, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> But, I stand by my assertion that give just the message very many |
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> people are going to figure out that it means you need to replace the |
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> "firefox" use flag with the "xulrunner" use flag so that apps will |
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> build against firefox-3 instead of trying to build against firefox-2. |
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They won't build against Fx 3, they'll build against either Fx 2 or |
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xulrunner 1.8.1.x. Once you have Fx 3, you can't have Fx 2, but you |
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can still have the older xulrunner, since xulrunner is slotted. |
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> > Briefly: |
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> > |
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> > The gecko rendering engine was always part of firefox through |
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> > versions 1 and 2. This is plain silly as such a thing should |
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> > really be an independent block of code that stands alone and |
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> > everything else can use without requiring that all of firefox |
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> > be present. |
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> > |
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> > This has now been fixed, the engine is now in a package called |
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> > xulrunner which firefox builds against. Other apps also need |
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> > xulrunner, but if you keep "USE=firefox" intact those apps |
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> > will pull in all of firefox-2 just to get gecko. If you have |
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> > firefox-3 installed, you have an instant blocker. With |
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> > "USE=xulrunner" they will build against xulrunner and firefox |
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> > can be whatever you feel like installing. |
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> Now I'm confused. I thought xulrunner was the user-interface |
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> engine rather than the rendering engine. |
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xulrunner provides both gecko and the ABIs needed for using a UI made |
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of XUL. |
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»Q« |
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Kleeneness is next to Gödelness. |
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