We'll provide Firefox3 for S10U5. But we need to take some time to solve the dependency issue first.
James Cornell wrote: > Not really gonna answer for Sun, but I doubt they will provide any new > major versions of such software until it is necessary. At the moment I > do not see Sun providing S10U5 users GTK+ 2.10. Possibly U6 if there > is a U6. If you can wait a little bit I can see if I can provide a > GTK+ 2.10 package to go along with Firefox 3 and package that as well > for S10U5. I have S10 on my Ultra 20 M2 as well. > > James > On Jun 18, 2008, at 4:06 PM, Michael E. Thomadakis wrote: > >> Hi James, >> >> I was so eager to try out FF3.00 but .... >> >> I have seen JDS being stuck were it is for very long time ... I run >> stock >> Sol10 on AMD64 h/w (Ultra 20M2 workstation) at work and I don't think >> I would >> be installing opensolaris any time soon. >> >> So I will either have to build FF3.0 or I guess wait until Solaris 10 >> upgrades >> its own libraries ? Is the latter one a reasonable expectation? >> >> >> thanks for the reply >> Michael >> >> >> >> On Wed, 18 Jun 2008, James Cornell wrote: >> >> | Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:51:01 -0500 >> | From: James Cornell <sparcdr at gmail.com <mailto:sparcdr at gmail.com>> >> | To: Michael E. Thomadakis <miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu >> <mailto:miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>> >> | Cc: desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto:desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> >> | Subject: Re: [desktop-discuss] Firefox 3 on Solaris 10 distributions >> | >> | Nope, not yet. With effort one can be built against GTK+ 2.10, but >> | backporting if it is ever done will take time. >> | James >> | >> | On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 2:53 PM, Michael E. Thomadakis < >> | miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu <mailto:miket at mikefire1.tamu.edu>> wrote: >> | >> | > Is there a mozilla firefox 3.00 binary that comes with all the >> necessary >> | > libraries that the production Solaris10 is missing ? (GTK+ 2.10 for >> | > instance?) The standard Solaris10 comes with GTK+2.4 .... >> | > >> | > Is there any plan to have Firefo3.00 run on the profuction >> Solaris10 ? >> | > >> | > thanks >> | > _______________________________________________ >> | > desktop-discuss mailing list >> | > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >> <mailto:desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org> >> | > >> | >> >> % -------------------------------------------------------------------- \ >> % Michael E. Thomadakis, Ph.D. Senior Lead Systems Engineer/Res \ >> % E-mail: miket AT sc.tamu.edu Texas A&M University \ >> % miket AT tamu.edu Supercomputing Center \ >> % Voice: 979-862-3931 Teague Research Center, 104B \ >> % FAX: 979-847-8643 College Station, TX 77843 \ >> % -------------------------------------------------------------------- \ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-discuss mailing list > desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/desktop-discuss/attachments/20080619/7b7edfd7/attachment.html>
