Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?

[pbrobinson at gmail.com]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 4:37 PM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 03:04:46PM +0200, Florent Le Coz wrote:
>>   On 28/07/2010 14:52, Mike McGrath wrote:
>> > In my opinion including software that even upstream says is not ready is
>> > for a distribution that's "lost their way".  We can still be a leading
>> > distribution and not include pre-release software.  Especially pre-release
>> > software that's not only in our critical path, but also something that
>> > almost all of us use every day.
>> I agree, but doesn't that mean that Firefox 4.0 won't be available in
>> F14 at all and will only be in F15?
>> I think it would be a huge drawback for Fedora 14.
>
> It would be huge if there people who can't live without it didn't have
> any other way of getting it than having it pre-packaged.  I think
> Firefox 4 looks to be fantastic, but the truth is that people only
> have to wait a few months for a release with it pre-packaged, if
> they're not able to add it on their own.

Well if the mozilla maintainers would get it into rawhide shortly
after the F-14 branch it would mean that people could get it from the
F-15 repos. For years I've used or recompiled srpm rawhide packages
that I've wanted/needed in a stable release. This has included firefox
and even evolution.

Peter