Mozilla nspr/nss/xulrunner/firefox

DJ Lucas dj at linuxfromscratch.org
Sat Nov 15 11:04:27 MST 2008


DJ Lucas wrote:
> I should have qualified that better...*after* Thunderbird and Seamonkey 
> catch up to the 3.0 series.  
TB3 will not be targeted to build against Xulrunner.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=306324

-- DJ Lucas


> I think that we should seriously consider 
> dropping nss/nspr standalone once the other products that we support 
> catch up and can use a system installed xulrunner.
>
> I do believe that it is a reasonable expectation that a new release of 
> Firefox will happen if a security bug is fixed in any of the standalone 
> packages because they are included in the binary distributions.  At very 
> least a warning would need to be added to the nss page instructing 
> people to use the Firefox internal copy if you plan to build any Mozilla 
> products...to save yourself from rebuilding multiple packages.
>   


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