On 08/16/12 03:51, Neil wrote:
Dave Townsend wrote:
On 08/15/12 12:41, Ben Hearsum wrote:
On 08/15/12 02:57 PM, Justin Wood (Callek) wrote:
XULRunner is currently an unsupported piece of software, we don't
run tests for it, and we *barely* ensure it still builds.
I don't think this is true. It's not tier1, but we ship it with every
release and beta. However, I'd be surprised if there was any
guarantee that it will exist in 5-10y though.
I think it's true. We don't have any automated tests that verify that
the build works beyond compiling and it was totally failing on most
platforms for 2-3 releases. Right now there are a couple of us that
attempt to keep it going but I have no idea how long that will last.
Thankfully XULRunner is a simple enough extension of the core pieces
of Firefox that the potential for breakage is pretty small, this is
probably the only reason it is still alive. I'm not sure its chances
are good if we make a change that requires a lot of work to keep
XULRunner working.
Aren't there linux distros trying to ship Firefox + Thunderbird +
XULRunner?
Sadly I doubt we have the capacity, but I would have thought that all
our existing tests should work just as well on a Firefox/Thunderbird +
XULRunner build as on a monolithic build.
That would be possible yeah, but yes it would increase the load. Really
all it would take is a couple of simple XUL applications checked into
the tree that report that they start up ok. That would be enough to have
detected the issues I've seen in the past, but no-one has time to work
on it (and hasn't since XULRunner's inception).
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