On 5/15/07, Bruce Dubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://wiki.mozilla.org/Linux/Runtime_Requirements > > They are basically wanting to drop support for older libraries. From a > developer's standpoint, I can understand not wanting to support older > stuff, but this seems to be too aggressive to me. The libraries are: > > * GTK+ 2.10.x Jul 06 > * GLib 2.12.x Aug 06 > * GNOME 2.16.x Sep 06 (which libs?) > * Pango 1.14.x Aug 06 > * Cairo 1.4.x Mar 07 > * xorg (libX11) 1.0.x Dec 05 > * dbus 1.0.x Nov 06 > * hal 0.5.8 Sep 06 > * libjpeg v6b Jun 01 > * libpng 1.2.x Sep 01 > * zlib 1.2.3 Jul 05
I think that's great. To me it means that things will integrate better with the desktop. Well, the gnome desktop anyway. In the gnome community, a lot of people have ditched firefox for epiphany because it doesn't integrate as well to the rest of the desktop. As I understand it, Mozilla has now allowed people from the Linux distros (I know RedHat has a presence) to take a more active development stance. Before that, Linux was definitely a second class citizen. The gnome libs have been optional libgnomeui and gnome-vfs. Don't know what they are for Firefox 3. > What I have done is go to the source sites and found when the .0 release > of each of the above versions was released. I really don't have any > problem with any of these for my LFS/BLFS systems, but any date later > than 18 months ago seems too recent to me for a general release. After > all, it takes several months for the releases to actually get into a > distro release. The way that site makes it sound is that there will be build-time switches to support older versions of the libraries to allow enterprise type distros to use the new Firefox. So, maybe this won't be that drastic. > The lack of support for distros with a cairo release of only last month > seems to be the worst offender. Mozilla bundles cairo, so it's not that big a deal. Very new cairo is critical to Mozilla since it wants to support a lot of platforms like Mac and OS/2 all through cairo. They need the newer bug fixes. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
