On 30 January 2010 19:00, Mail Lists <lists(a)sapience.com> wrote:
On 01/30/2010 01:53 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
> 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.
>
And how many plugins are packaged by fedora ? Any?
I'd guess all the plugin dev's at the moz website state clearly which
vers of filrefox is supported - and most want their plugins to work with
current release - 3.6.
So that seems like a bad reason not to update.
Well there's the Java and Totem plugins at least, but there's a whole
slew of apps in Fedora that build against xulrunner:
repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps xulrunner\*
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Mat Booth