XULRunner in rawhide

Dennis Jacobfeuerborn d.jacobfeuerborn at conversis.de
Wed Nov 14 19:47:08 UTC 2007


Martin Stransky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> there's a new package in rawhide, xulrunner
> (xulrunner-1.9-0.alpha9.3.fc9). This package is supposed to provide
> gecko-libs instead of Firefox and the plan is to ship Firefox as a pure
> XUL application and run in by xulrunner.

Is this really going to work? The Mozilla guys made it clear that they 
don't want to make Firefox depend on xulrunner as that would limit their 
ability to push the envelope with firefox. If Fedora wants to make that 
move wouldn't that eventually require a fork?

http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2007-05-15/xulrunner-what-we-are-doing/

Regards,
   Dennis




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