Hi Mike,
On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 08:42:27AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 03:28:28AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > Well, no, the "xulrunner /path/to/application.ini" approach still
> > seems to work fine with all xulrunner versions, so I'll stick with
> > that for now. IIRC conkeror's upstream is also going in that
> > direction. They used some commandline options to get the GRE version
> > before IIRC.
>
> Except there is no "xulrunner" binary ;)
.oO( I should have written xulrunner-$version, I knew it. ;-)
> So if you want to support several versions, you need to scan for
> xulrunner-1.9, xulrunner-1.9.1, xulrunner-1.9.2, xulrunner-2.0,
> xulrunner-5.0, xulrunner-6.0, etc.
That's what the /usr/bin/conkeror wrapper did initially and does since
I noticed that symlinking xulrunner-stub doesn't work on Ubuntu.
I just now wanted to mix those two approaches and then noticed the
xulrunner-stub one does no more work with newer versions...
> > > It's not because conkeror is fortunate enough to work with different
> > > versions that we can assume everything will.
> >
> > Sure. I though think that instantbird is the only other non-mozilla
> > xulrunner application in Debian besides conkeror.
>
> But it uses a binary component and thus is effectively tied to a single
> version.
Ok, didn't look too deep into its packaging.
> So conkeror is effectively alone.
Yeah.
Anyway, thanks a lot for your support and insight, it's very appreciated.
Kind regards, Axel
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