Le samedi 05 juillet 2008 à 01:36 +0200, Tomasz Paweł Gajc a écrit :
> Dnia 2008-07-04, o godz. 18:06:53
> Tiago Salem Herrmann <salem@(protected)):
>
> > Vincent Danen wrote:
> > > * [2008-07-04 17:36:39 -0400] Tiago Salem Herrmann wrote:
> > >
> > >>>> Not that I actually LIKE Firefox 3, but we're obviously going to
> > >>>> ship with it for 2009, so we may as well get it in as the
> > >>>> default version ASAP.
> > >>>>  
> > >>>
> > >>> Looks like ff2 will be supported by upstream for a while, so i'd
> > >>> like to see ff2 in contribs and ff3 in main.
> > >>>
> > >>>  
> > >> Doesn't it imply on moving applications which link against ff2 to
> > >> contrib too?
> > >
> > > Yup. If you put ff2 in contrib, everything that depends on it will
> > > have to move too.
> > >
> > > /me giggles with hopeful glee
> > >
> > > If that's not feasible, than ff3 should be in contrib until we can
> > > make everything build independant of the ff2 version or use
> > > xulrunner or something.
> > >
> > Yes, I have built ff3 against xulrunner and worked fine. But I'm not
> > able to compile other ff dependent software against xulrunner
> > (epiphany, galeon, etc.)
> > I'll upload xulrunner package as soon as I can.
> >
> Huh ? xulrunner ?
>
> IIRC there were signs that mdv will only provide firefox from upstream
> tarball and xulrunner is not supported upstream etc.Looks like this has
> changed, imo for good.

We got in touch with some Mozilla folks who confirmed xulrunner is
"semi-supported" by just using firefox3 tarball and building it with
xulrunner compilation flags.

I think it is an error from their side to not release a separate tarball
but anyway, all other distributions have switched to a similar way of
packaging xulrunner / FF3.

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Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@(protected)>
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