On 30 January 2010 19:00, Mail Lists <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/30/2010 01:53 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote: >> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 11:36 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: >>> Braden McDaniel wrote: >>> >>>> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 14:48 +0800, Liu Yu Fei Eric wrote: >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I noticed firefox was stuck on 3.5.6 for a rather long time. >>>>> What about 3.5.7 and the recently 3.6? They are even not in koji. >>>> >>>> xulrunner-1.9.2 breaks API compatibility with 1.9.1, so downstream >>>> packages would need patching for this to happen. >>> >>> Even minor releases generally/often break ABI, requiring lots of dependent >>> package rebuilds... or is this case even worse? >> >> I said "API", and that's what I meant. >> >> At the very least, there have been subtle changes to the plug-in API >> that can cause compile failures. >> > > And how many plugins are packaged by fedora ? Any? > > I'd guess all the plugin dev's at the moz website state clearly which > vers of filrefox is supported - and most want their plugins to work with > current release - 3.6. > > So that seems like a bad reason not to update. > Well there's the Java and Totem plugins at least, but there's a whole slew of apps in Fedora that build against xulrunner: repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps xulrunner\* -- Mat Booth -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
