Well, Fedora is going to ship standalone Firefox instead of the FF+XL
combo and retire the xulrunner package.
ma.
On 01/13/2014 01:34 AM, Mike Hommey wrote:
Hi,
Let's face it: xulrunner is hardly maintained, we barely build and test
it on automation, and the result is that it is often broken for long
periods of time.
I propose that we just stop pretending, and terminate xulrunner,
considering the following:
- Xulrunner is lagging behind Firefox: DLL block list, startup telemetry,
etc.
- Since bug 755724, running firefox -app application.ini is 99% the same
as running xulrunner application.ini, except for a few details that
should be considered bugs. Before that bug, it was quite different,
as browser-specific files were available to the xul application.
- There is no reason we can't generate the sdk from firefox instead of
xulrunner. Moreover that would make firefox-specific interfaces
available in the sdk that aren't currently (which may or may not be a
good thing, arguably)
- We could include the xulrunner and xulrunner-stub executables as part
of firefox. xulrunner-stub is small and self-contained, and xulrunner
could be replaced by something that calls firefox -app. Or we could
make the firefox executable check under what name it's called and act
accordingly.
Thoughts?
Mike
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