Firefox 4 for f14?

[Alexander Kurtakov]

On 10:33:31 AM Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Nathaniel McCallum wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:41 -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:35:55PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and
> > > "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the latest f14
> > > will ever get the latest firefox 4.0?
> > > 
> > > Recompilation of the packages from f15 is not such a good option.
> > > 
> > > --jason
> > 
> > While we are known for latest and greatest, I'm not 100% sure the jump
> > from Firefox 3.x to Firefox 4.x is within the most recent Updates
> > Policy[0] because of the drastic changes between the two releases and
> > the amount of user visible change that would result. I am also not the
> > maintainer of Firefox so can't really speak to this in any form of
> > authority but wanted to reply mainly for this next tid bit .... with
> > many thanks to Spot, there is currently a fully functional Firefox 4
> 
> > repository for Fedora 14, more information and instructions here:
> There are packages in the critical path which depend on xulrunner.
> Firefox 4's xulrunner is neither ABI nor API compatible with earlier
> versions.  I can't help but think that such an update would be unwise.

Also pushing xulrunner 2.0 into F-14 will totally break Eclipse and every SWT 
based application (e.g. Azureus). Whoever wishes to push it to F-14 should 
either fix SWT to run with xulrunner 2.0 on F-14 or break pretty big number of 
packages/applicatons.

> 
> Nathaniel