On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 22:35, Diego Rivera wrote: > Hi all > > For reasons beyond my control, I'm unable to upgrade Mozilla in our > Mandrake 8.2 systems. Deployed Mozilla version is 0.9.8. > > If I were to build evolution 1.0.8 with the nspr/nss3 libraries from > this version of Mozilla (as I already have), what would be the > functional impacts of using outdated libraries?
You should be okay with Mozilla 0.9.8 (just keep in mind that older versions of mozilla's ssl implementation might be buggier/less secure? than more current versions). > > Missing functionality? Mozilla 1.0's nspr and nss libraries have maintained compatability with Mozilla 0.9.8's afaik, so you should be fine. > Segfaults due to false expectations of code > behavior? Hopefully not. I'm pretty certain this won't be a problem. > Big hairy gorilla beating me to a bloody pulp? Most definetely. We've lost more users that way... > > I'll keep pressing the case to move to newer Mozilla releases - namely > 1.1. But until I do, I still need to deploy Evolution with SSL support > on some of our mobile users. I'm not sure if Mozilla 1.1's nspr/nss libraries have maintained compatability with the libs from 1.0, just so you are aware that there could be problems there. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
