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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