On 10:33:31 AM Wednesday, March 23, 2011 Nathaniel McCallum wrote: > 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. Also pushing xulrunner 2.0 into F-14 will totally break Eclipse and every SWT based application (e.g. Azureus). Whoever wishes to push it to F-14 should either fix SWT to run with xulrunner 2.0 on F-14 or break pretty big number of packages/applicatons. > > Nathaniel -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
