[OpenIndiana-discuss] Why I will never try to build Firefox from source code

2015-03-27 Thread Dmitry Kozhinov
Hi all, The discussion here is lately focused on how do I build package A and how do I build package B. Firefox is a good example. I will say Firefox in this message, but this may be applied to other packages as well. Isn't it supposed that Firefox should be built by Firefox *developers*,

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why I will never try to build Firefox from source code

2015-03-27 Thread James Carlson
On 03/27/15 07:50, Dmitry Kozhinov wrote: The discussion here is lately focused on how do I build package A and how do I build package B. Firefox is a good example. I will say Firefox in this message, but this may be applied to other packages as well. Isn't it supposed that Firefox should

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Why I will never try to build Firefox from source code

2015-03-27 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Fri, 27 Mar 2015, James Carlson wrote: Having developer (or perhaps better stated as maintainer or distributor) provided binaries is great. You're right that it's a time saver for ordinary users. Developers hardly ever produce binaries for distribution, and usually when they do, the