Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (464 mails)

["Alexey Eremenko" <al4321@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 7, 2008 9:15 AM, Wolfgang Rosenauer <wolfgang@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to discuss some planning for Firefox on 11.0 as JPR suggested on IRC.
>
> Version for 11.0:
> -----------------
> First thing is that Firefox 3.0 final will most likely not be ready for
> 11.0beta1 or even 11.0beta1+ according to
> http://en.opensuse.org/Roadmap/11.0 .
> I've found no detailed roadmap for Firefox but people think it won't be
> ready at that time.
>
> So we(*) are planning to ship a current Beta Version of Firefox 3.0 at
> this time and so hopefully will be able to update to the final version
> when it comes (probably with the first security round).
> One thing to mention for that case is that we need to update NSPR and
> NSS to support Firefox 3.0 whose versions are also not final yet (but
> possibly will be in time).
>
> (*) afaik JPR and MAW and myself agree with that. Other opinions to come
> here.
>
> A current testpackage for FF 3.0 is available through the buildservice
> in mozilla:beta. Feel free to give it a try.
> Packages are also available for 10.2 and 10.3. Older distributions are
> not supported by Firefox 3 anymore because of the minimal required GTK
> version 2.10.
>
>
> Shipping "vehicle" for Firefox
> ------------------------------
> If you follow RedHat/Fedora development a bit, you might have noticed
> that they are not shipping a "big" Firefox package but only a small one
> containing Firefox specific compoments and UI. The core components are
> used from xulrunner what we shipped in the past as gecko embedding
> engine as well.
> I wonder if we want to do the same?
>
>
> Comments please!

Now FFox 3 BETA 3 soon comes out, and I believe that FF 3 *will* be
ready for openSUSE 11.0.

-- 
-Alexey Eremenko "Technologov"
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