On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Orion Poplawski orion@cora.nwra.com wrote:
Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM, orion@cora.nwra.com 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...
I think this was the reason for the Red Hat 5.x.y releases. There were paying customers who wanted a new desktop and others who wanted an old one. Red Hat 5.1.x will be locked with firefox-1.5 etc, but the various users that want 3.0 with 5 will get it with 5.2,5.3 series.