Hi Volker, Volker A. Brandt wrote: > Hello Alfred! >> . Please try your best to download the contributed builds (tarball >> format) from the links on this page instead of grabbing from the contrib >> directory directly. This is *VERY IMPORTANT* for us to get the download >> number statistic from Mozilla and be part of the possible future >> "Firefox/Thunderbird download day". >> > > Hmmmm... these are not direct links, but rather lead to the "generic" > download page. Is this intentional? Will there be direct links > later? Will the downloads still be counted? Consider me confused... > :-) > No, they're not direct links. To download directly from the Mozilla server won't be counted. All the links look like: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/products/download.html?product=firefox-3.0.8&os=opensolaris-i386&lang=en-US, which usually consists three parameters: product/os/lang. As I understand, Mozilla's bouncer server does some magic behind to do the counting stuff. > Also, why the tarballs only? I much prefer the pkg distribution > for Solaris 10, and I will use any on-disk pkg(5) format for OpenSolaris > when it is available. > Mozilla's bouncer server can only support one format. The pkgadd format will be obsolete, while standalone pkg binary isn't available yet as I know. So we choose the tarball format for now. It can be changed in the future. However, I think tarball format could be a better choice for development purpose. Multiple copies of Firefox can easily co-exist. That's important for bug fixes and testing.
BTW, Firefox 3.1b3 + Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 will be in pkg(5) format in b111. And any mozilla-based projects can be in /contrib repository through Source Juicer (http://jucr.opensolaris.org/home/). Thanks, -Alfred
