--- Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Ric Johnson wrote: > > > Well, if "Joe Users" are paying for it, I suppose that is the > way > > it should be. Problem is that "Joe" wants the latest browser > > widget too - maybe the latest Galeon - and expects somebody > will > > build it for them. That "somebody" is the guy that expects > > mozilla-devel to be readily available... > > Well, take a look on MandrakeClub, we have Mozilla-1.4, galeon > rebuilt > for mozilla-1.4 and epiphany too, which were all available > within about > 3 days of the source release of 1.4 ... > > > It seems like there should be a better solution than to cut > > mozilla-devel from the download release since it is > absolutely > > essential for building any of the gecko based applications. > > Most of which are provided (I meant to build wxMozilla but > didn't get to > it ...). Anyway, if 1% of the users (and that's optimistic) are > going to > be building and hosting mozilla-related packages, I am sure > they can > download the 3MB -devel package. > > Instead of the -devel package, maybe there are other *real* > applications > that users, who have no idea how to compile gecko apps, will be > able to use. > > Of course, mozilla is one of those packages that gets > out-of-date pretty quickly, so in 3 weeks time you aren't > going to want the -devel package from 1.4 any more ...
Well, that's a good point since 1.5 is very close to release. :) All in all, thanks for your input. :) I have devoted enuf time to this since, obviously, MDK has no intention of including moz devel for the release. That's too bad as it will just make devel with MDK just a little bit harder... > Regards, > Buchan Regards to you too. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
