On Monday, August 20, 2012 8:22:07 PM UTC+1, Alex Vincent wrote: > On 8/14/2012 8:45 PM, andreas.pals...@gmail.com wrote: > > > Hi. > > > > > > I am curious if XUL Runner has an End-Of-Life policy? > > > Or is it intimately connected with Firefox, i.e. as long as there is > > Firefox releases based on XUL there will be XUL Runner available too? > > > > > > The reason I ask if because I am trying to "standardize" it within my > > organization for the next 5-10 years. > > > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > I personally think I'll be using XULRunner for a long while. I notice > > when SDK builds aren't available... and if the community considered me > > qualified to do so, I'd try to actively own and maintain it. It's > > pretty important to me as a base platform for building my own apps. > > > > For instance, there's a patch in the pipeline to replace the old > > install-app capability with a Python script that works much better. > > > > Alex
I am glad to hear that there is at least one person stepping up to support xulrunner if a need arises. I also have some apps written on top of xulrunner but my gut feeling tells me that xul is not the most future-proof technology. Sadly, it has never been. I hear that xulrunner has also been pulled from some Linux distributions. Needless to say, if you enjoy writing with web technologies but you still want to build for the desktop, just use an embed HTML renderer. It is not the same as XUL but it is getting close and you can also provide native experience without fiddling to much with any framework. Personally, this is the route I have chosen for myself. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
