On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 11:26 AM Jerry James <loganjerry@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 11, 2023 at 9:23 AM Jeffrey Walton <noloader@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But I feel crummy because Fedora carries a library I help maintain, > > and someone else does the packaging. I feel like we've pushed our work > > onto someone else. > > I don't think you need to feel bad about it. Fedora has lots of > packages maintained by people who don't work on the upstream code. > > Out of curiosity, what is the package you would like to see added to Fedora? Gecko Driver, <https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver>. Gecko Driver is the Firefox Web Driver. It is used to manually control the web browser through Selenium, like when running automated testing of a web app. A web developer who tests their web app on Red Hat or Fedora will certainly need it. My use case is a little different. I use Firefox, Selenium and Gecko Driver to automatically file FCC and FTC complaints when scammers and spammers call on the telephone. As far as I know, my program is the only call-blocking software which automatically files complaints. Also see <https://www.callboot.net>. The thing about the various browsers and web drivers is, they are usually a matched set. When you install the browser, you usually want the matched version (based on release date) of the browser+web driver. If a new browser is matched with an old web driver (or vice versa), bad things can happen, like unexplained failures. (I have first hand knowledge of this). Both Chrome and Chrome Driver are available in Fedora. I'm not sure why Firefox is different in this case: $ dnf search chrome chromium | grep -i driver chromedriver.x86_64 : WebDriver for Google Chrome/Chromium ... Part of me feels like the folks doing the Firefox packaging should be packaging Gecko Driver, too. The other part of me says, just get Gecko Driver added and move on. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
