Hi, On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 08:02:02PM -0400, John J. Foerch wrote: > Just a heads up that all conkeror users should begin to transition away > from using contrib/run-conkeror to launch the program. XULRunner, as of > version 5.0 (which which is next after 2.0, obviously) no longer uses a > gre registry (/etc/gre.d and ~/.gre.d). Without it, we lose the ability > to automatically start conkeror with the highest available version of > XULRunner.
I think there's still a possibility to go a little bit in that direction: At least the xulrunner from the xulrunner-5.0 package of http://mozilla.debian.net/ still knows about the --gre-version option: $ xulrunner-5.0 --gre-version 5.0a2 So if the script tests each xulrunner found in the search path ($PATH) or so using this option, we could still determine the newest one of those in the path. It's surely not as good as with the registry which AFAIK was independent of the search path in $PATH, but it's better than nothing at all. JFTR: This issue does more or less not affect the Debian packages as they use a different startup script (which can be found under debian/conkeror.bin in the git repo) which uses the fact that packaged xulrunners in Debian have usually all but the last part of the version number in their binary name (i.e. xulrunner-1.9.2 or xulrunner-5.0). If none of these can be found, debian/conkeror.bin tries to determine the version number of the found xulrunner via "xulrunner --gre-version". Kind regards, Axel -- /~\ Plain Text Ribbon Campaign | Axel Beckert \ / Say No to HTML in E-Mail and News | [email protected] (Mail) X See http://www.asciiribbon.org/ | [email protected] (Mail+Jabber) / \ I love long mails: http://email.is-not-s.ms/ | http://noone.org/abe/ (Web) _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
