On 01/30/2010 01:53 PM, Braden McDaniel wrote:
On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 11:36 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Braden McDaniel wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 14:48 +0800, Liu Yu Fei Eric wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I noticed firefox was stuck on 3.5.6 for a rather long time.
>>> What about 3.5.7 and the recently 3.6? They are even not in koji.
>>
>> xulrunner-1.9.2 breaks API compatibility with 1.9.1, so downstream
>> packages would need patching for this to happen.
>
> Even minor releases generally/often break ABI, requiring lots of dependent
> package rebuilds... or is this case even worse?
I said "API", and that's what I meant.
At the very least, there have been subtle changes to the plug-in API
that can cause compile failures.
And how many plugins are packaged by fedora ? Any?
I'd guess all the plugin dev's at the moz website state clearly which
vers of filrefox is supported - and most want their plugins to work with
current release - 3.6.
So that seems like a bad reason not to update.
So what are the couplings then that need source changes other than
plugins?
Can someone be specific rather than hand waving API around please.