How about firefox 3.6 in Fedora 12 ?

[Mat Booth]

On 30 January 2010 19:00, Mail Lists <lists at 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\*

-- 
Mat Booth