Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (175 mails)

[Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 29 septembre 2010 à 14:02 +0200, Wolfgang Rosenauer a
écrit :
> Hi,
>
> a few years ago I have driven an effort to split the Firefox package in
> openSUSE so that Firefox is a pretty small addon based on the xulrunner
> packages. We already had a xulrunner package at that time to satisfy
> consumers/applications which want to embed Gecko and to be able to run
> XUL applications designed to run under xulrunner.
> Back then I stripped out almost all duplication from the Firefox package
> and based it on xulrunner.
>
> That went fairly well up to Firefox 3.6 now but starting with Firefox 4
> Mozilla did some heavy changes to Firefox' extension and chrome system
> which makes it very hard to do it as we did. Some things are just
> impossible and we would need to configure Firefox differently as
> upstream does to keep compatibility with the above app design.
> One difference you can notice right now with the Firefox 4 betas I ship
> is that localization doesn't work anymore which is one outcome of the
> changes.
> Another feature (omnijar; performance related) is currently disabled
> because it's not possible with our structure.
>
> Because of all the above I'm thinking about taking back that split and
> ship Firefox as (almost) static build again.
> I don't want to drop the xulrunner packages as they still make sense though.
>
> That also shouldn't be a problem of maintenance since we already had to
> keep xulrunner and firefox exactly in sync and built from the same
> sources. Basically the only thing which is affected is the size of the
> package but I _think_ going from 1MB to 10MB (something like that) will
> kill our installation media?
>
> This is more or less just a heads up to give people the chance to raise
> their voice or concerns since it might be possible to keep it as it is
> with some constraints (and unfortunately some ongoing work to keep up
> with upstream).
>
> Any comments?

Probably a stupid question, but have you discussed with other
distribution maintainers to see how they are handling the move ? 

It might useful to have a "common" way of packaging xulrunner / firefox
across distributions, which "could" help influence Mozilla in the
future.

-- 
Frederic Crozat <fcrozat@xxxxxxxxxx>
Novell

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