On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:55:03AM -0800, ajvinc...@gmail.com wrote: > Wow. All this just as I'm trying to get XULRunner repaired and > stabilized for good with automated tests. I put a lot of effort into > reviving the damn thing, and I'm close to getting it working again on > the Mac. (More to the point, I'm obsessed with getting it working on > the Mac again - and I know I'm getting close. There are heartbeats, > I'm telling you.) > > I'm willing to own XULRunner and actively maintain it. People on this > thread know I've been an advocate for it, and that I've submitted > several patches to bring it back. I have been working with XULRunner > for two years. > > If you are going to kill XULRunner off entirely in favor of firefox > -app, then do it, *get it over with*, and write a "XULRunner > Considered Harmful" blog post on planet mozilla. > > I don't know. Maybe building an SDK based on Firefox is the right > thing; honestly, I just want something that works. But I put a lot of > effort into this over the last two years.
FWIW, I packaged xulrunner in Debian in 2006 and have been maintaining it since then. Iceweasel (rebranded Firefox) has been built against xulrunner since 2008. I put a lot of effort into xulrunner over the last eight years. It's time to face the truth and let go. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
