Well, there are more issues than just plugins for Mozilla. I have several apps that rely on "Install Anywhere" which is a java based product from Zero G. All of the installers break under 8.1. I am sure it's an environment issue related to loading shared objects, but one that needs to be addressed by someone. I'm not blaming SuSE... I know the change to GCC 3.x was needed. Of course timing might not be the best, if the rest of the world wasn't ready to switch. Aside from the Java issues, I love 8.1 so far... unfortunately my own companies product won't even install on my machine now. - Herman Preston Crawford wrote:
On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Philipp Thomas wrote:
If SuSE were to compile Mozilla with the older GCC it would work fine as is evident by using the mozilla.org pkg.
Yeah, and break all packages that use the Gecko render engine like for instance galeon.
So where does that leave those of us who want a fully functional Mozilla?
Either uninstalling Nautilus and Galeon or sticking with 8.0, it sounds like. I guess I'll need to decide which to do. Upgrading to 8.1 was a no-brainer. I was going to call around Portland tomorrow and see where it was being sold and buy it. Now I'm not so sure.
Using gcc 2.95.3 to recompile selected packages is no option for us. We're very happy that we no longer have to maintain three different versions of gcc and instead have *one* version that covers *all* platforms we're supporting. That one version is quite enough to maintain. Just take a look inside the GCC source RPM and you'll see a rather larger number of patches we're applying.
You may be happy. I don't discount that or disagree that that's important. But what's the customer who needs Java to be fully functional supposed to think?
Preston
-- "DRM... Digitally Retarded Media - content that cannot reach its full potential because of artificial restraints."