Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-15 Thread Peter Robinson
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 10:54 PM, Martin Langhoff wrote: > On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:21 PM,   wrote: >> In particular, we are having issues with XULRunner 1.9.1.9. We are >> considering unstalling this version and replacing it with XULRunner 8.0. Well depending on what your aiming for I would loo

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Gonzalo Odiard
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:17 PM, wrote: > Thank you Chris. > > There is a software requirement to use a custom browser rather than the > default browser. Apart from the fact that XULRunner is highly touted by > Firefox/Mozilla for building custom browsers(apparently Google Chrome is > also based

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Wed, Jan 11 2012, Christoph Derndorfer wrote: > Maybe I'm wrong but given that Evolution in Design's list of clients > (http://www.evolutionindesignz.com/clients.html) includes GogoNews ( > http://www.gogonews.com/) which recently announced that they're > working on "a custom, Linux-based b

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Christoph Derndorfer
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 11:55 PM, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi Anthony, > > On Wed, Jan 11 2012, anth...@evolutionindesignz.com wrote: > > My name is Anthony, and I am doing some work for a company called > > Evolution in Design (http://www.evolutionindesignz.com). > > Hm, I still don't understand. Ar

Re: Having Two Versions Of XULRunner On The Same Computer: Was 'OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software'

2012-01-11 Thread anthony
Sorry. I did not realize that Chris had answered my question in his email. It would be better to bundle the newer version of xulrunner inside your program, if you need it, although that would waste some disk space. I think this it the direction we will take. Thank you all very much! On 11.01

Having Two Versions Of XULRunner On The Same Computer: Was 'OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software'

2012-01-11 Thread anthony
Thank you all for your very useful input. From the information provided, it appears that upgrading to version 8.0 is fraught with risk. Would there be any issues if we install a second copy of XULRunner on the OLPC computer? For the tests that I described that I did, I installed a second copy

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread anthony
Thank you Chris. There is a software requirement to use a custom browser rather than the default browser. Apart from the fact that XULRunner is highly touted by Firefox/Mozilla for building custom browsers(apparently Google Chrome is also based on XULRunner), it was also noted that XULRunner i

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread anthony
It'll probably break both Firefox and Sugar's Browse -- they are tightly bound to the xulrunner version. This is very useful information. Thank you very much. On 11.01.2012 17:54, Martin Langhoff wrote: On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:21 PM, wrote: In particular, we are having issues with XULRunne

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread anthony
Yes, of course. We plan to do testing, and would like to be as exhaustive as possible-thus the original email. A decision to consider an upgrade was only made today after realizing the that OLPC project will stop using XULRunner and move into Webkit. The purspose of the email I sent was to qui

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi Anthony, On Wed, Jan 11 2012, anth...@evolutionindesignz.com wrote: > My name is Anthony, and I am doing some work for a company called > Evolution in Design (http://www.evolutionindesignz.com). Hm, I still don't understand. Are you just writing a piece of software for a deployment to install

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Martin Langhoff
On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:21 PM, wrote: > In particular, we are having issues with XULRunner 1.9.1.9. We are > considering unstalling this version and replacing it with XULRunner 8.0. It'll probably break both Firefox and Sugar's Browse -- they are tightly bound to the xulrunner version. So nob

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Benjamin M. Schwartz
On 01/11/2012 05:21 PM, anth...@evolutionindesignz.com wrote: > it is presumed that replacing XULRunner > 1.9.1.9 should not cause problems in browser functionaltiy. That's an extremely dangerous thing to presume. I "presume" that you're actually going to test the browser extensively after perfo

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread anthony
Hello there; Thank you for your response. My name is Anthony, and I am doing some work for a company called Evolution in Design (http://www.evolutionindesignz.com). According to the Mozilla documentation(https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner_1.9.1_Release_Notes#Linux_2), uninstalling XU

Re: OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread Chris Ball
Hi, On Wed, Jan 11 2012, anth...@evolutionindesignz.com wrote: > Does the OLPC project have any policies against upgrading the default > versions of the software installed on the OLPC laptop? > > In particular, we are having issues with XULRunner 1.9.1.9. We are > considering unstalling this versi

OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

2012-01-11 Thread anthony
Does the OLPC project have any policies against upgrading the default versions of the software installed on the OLPC laptop? In particular, we are having issues with XULRunner 1.9.1.9. We are considering unstalling this version and replacing it with XULRunner 8.0. i)Does the OLPC project have