XULRunner in rawhide

Christopher Aillon caillon at redhat.com
Wed Nov 14 14:30:16 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.
> 
> So no more firefox-devel packages in rawhide, you should use
> xulrunner-devel (gecko-libs == 1.9) now.
> 
> If you maintain any package what is built against gecko-libs (or
> firefox-devel), please rebuild it with the xulrunner. The xulrunner-*.pc
> pkg-config files are provided and you may add "--with-gecko=xulrunner"
> directive to configure script.

Actually, this is not going to work for many apps if it works at all. 
They would need some porting.  I haven't had time to write up some info 
on this yet, though.




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