Re: RHEL firefox 1.5 -> 3.0

[Orion Poplawski]

Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM,   wrote:
> > Is anyone else surprised about this move?  It appears to have broken IDL
> > on 5.2.
>
> Not really. Red Hat (CentOS's upstream) announced early on in the 5.x
> series that they would move to firefox 3.0 when it was ready. The Red
> Hat 5.2 beta had firefox-3.0 in it, and it had been discussed on this
> list before.

Well, not so much surprised by the appearance as surprised by the 
decision to make a change that was likely to cause incompatibilities 
with software built against 1.5.  I moved to EL versions to try to avoid 
such things...