Re: issues with mozilla

[Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com>]

On Sun, Mar 21, 2004 at 07:07:23AM -0800, Paul Heinlein wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Mar 2004, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> 
> > Despite of a general policy of not changing versions this seems
> > to me a correct thing to do here.  Comments?
> 
> Red Hat issued a fairly major mozilla version bump (1.2 -> 1.4) last
> week, so my hunch is that backporting the latest patches was deemed
> unworkable.

This mozilla-1.4 and a matching galeon is what I am running right
now on RH7.3 installations and spec patches I posted were for these
new Red Hat releases.  So far all "uninformed guinea pigs" :-) even
failed to notice that anything has changed.

I fully expect that changes for RH8 are of the same order of
magnitude and for 7.2 most likely too.

> So I guess my comment is that there's probably not much choice...

The other choices as I see them are:
  - do nothing and hope for the best (it may work in majority of
    cases)
  - somebody with a good knowledge of mozilla sources, and a quite a
    bit of time to burn, digs through 1.4 sources and based on that
    fixes earlier stuff; sounds to me like a massive waste of effort.

Maybe somebody has some other options?  There also can be some
"gotchas" which I am missing.  Hence my request for comments.

   Michal