How about firefox 3.6 in Fedora 12 ?

Braden McDaniel braden at endoframe.com
Sat Jan 30 18:53:26 UTC 2010


On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 11:36 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: 
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 14:48 +0800, Liu Yu Fei Eric wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> I noticed firefox was stuck on 3.5.6 for a rather long time.
> >> What about 3.5.7 and the recently 3.6? They are even not in koji.
> > 
> > xulrunner-1.9.2 breaks API compatibility with 1.9.1, so downstream
> > packages would need patching for this to happen.
> 
> Even minor releases generally/often break ABI, requiring lots of dependent 
> package rebuilds... or is this case even worse?

I said "API", and that's what I meant.

At the very least, there have been subtle changes to the plug-in API
that can cause compile failures.

-- 
Braden McDaniel <braden at endoframe.com>



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