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by Steve Morris-5 :: Rate this Message:

Frederik Himpe wrote:

> Reading the discussions from last week about xulrunner, it seems there
> were to major problems for the adoption of xulrunner:
> 1. New releases of xulrunner integrating security fixes are not
> regularly published
> 2. xulrunner just like firefox installs in a directory containing the
> exact version, causing a necesary rebuild of all packages depending on
> it whenever xulrunner gets updated
>
> I hope I found a solution to both problems:
>
> 1. The developers on irc://irc.mozilla.org/xulrunner told me that you
> can simply use the Firefox source to build xulrunner. As I understand
> it, the xulrunner source package is nothing more that the Firefox source
> pacakge stripped from the web browser specific GUI code. I can indeed
> confirm I succeeded in building the xulrunner package with the firefox
> sources.
>

As I understand it, this makes perfect sense as my reading of the info.

on xulrunner is that is is nothing more than a web engine, which is how
firefox is using it, and for it to be useful it requires a HIF so there
should not be any issues using the Firefox sources.
> 2. Fedora has changed the installation process of xulrunner, so it
> installs everything in a directory named xulrunner-1.9. So updating
> xulrunner to a minor security version should hopefully not cause a
> necessary rebuild of all packages depending on it.
>
This might be a stupid question, but why not install xulrunner in a
directory name xulrunner, why is there this unnecessary dependency on
psuedo version numbers in the directory name. This sort of naming
convention went out with the dinosaurs on other platforms.

regards,
Steve

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