On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Orion Poplawski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stephen John Smoogen wrote: >> >> On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Is anyone else surprised about this move? It appears to have broken IDL >>> on 5.2. >>> >> >> Not really. Red Hat (CentOS's upstream) announced early on in the 5.x >> series that they would move to firefox 3.0 when it was ready. The Red >> Hat 5.2 beta had firefox-3.0 in it, and it had been discussed on this >> list before. > > Well, not so much surprised by the appearance as surprised by the decision > to make a change that was likely to cause incompatibilities with software > built against 1.5. I moved to EL versions to try to avoid such things... > >
I think this was the reason for the Red Hat 5.x.y releases. There were paying customers who wanted a new desktop and others who wanted an old one. Red Hat 5.1.x will be locked with firefox-1.5 etc, but the various users that want 3.0 with 5 will get it with 5.2,5.3 series. -- Stephen J Smoogen. -- BSD/GNU/Linux How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. = Shakespeare. "The Merchant of Venice" _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
