Re: Firefox 4 for f14?

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2011/3/23 Nathaniel McCallum <nathaniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:41 -0500, Adam Miller wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:35:55PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and
>> > "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the latest f14
>> > will ever get the latest firefox 4.0?
>> >
>> > Recompilation of the packages from f15 is not such a good option.
>> >
>> > --jason
>>
>> While we are known for latest and greatest, I'm not 100% sure the jump
>> from Firefox 3.x to Firefox 4.x is within the most recent Updates
>> Policy[0] because of the drastic changes between the two releases and
>> the amount of user visible change that would result. I am also not the
>> maintainer of Firefox so can't really speak to this in any form of
>> authority but wanted to reply mainly for this next tid bit .... with
>> many thanks to Spot, there is currently a fully functional Firefox 4
>> repository for Fedora 14, more information and instructions here:
>
> There are packages in the critical path which depend on xulrunner.
> Firefox 4's xulrunner is neither ABI nor API compatible with earlier
> versions.  I can't help but think that such an update would be unwise.
>
> Nathaniel
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I know this can be problematic but I like the spot's repo for giving
us the chance to try this release.  Maybe those "feature repos" should
be incorporated somehow in the "official" repos?

--joshua
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