Re: [Cooker] Towards a usable xulrunner

> 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
>