On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Ehsan Akhgari <ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 1/21/2014, 4:27 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: .. >> In general, though, it seems to me that having partners patch Gecko is >> bad in the sense that it makes it harder to move to a future where the >> device vendor ships Gonk (analogous to Android) and Mozilla ships >> Gecko updates (analogous to Google Play Services). Have we given up on >> getting to a future where Mozilla ships Gecko updates and Firefox OS >> users get an up-to-date Gecko from Mozilla the way desktop and Android >> users do? > > > I'm unaware of our plans for doing that, but indeed that sounds very hard if > not impossible as long as Gecko modifications are permitted. Do you know > who would be the right person to ask about the plans you're referring to?
I'm not sure what level of "plan" the assumed aspiration I'm referring to has ever been on. IIRC, back when the Gonk/Gecko/Gaia taxonomy was introduced, the idea was that Gonk was a Gecko porting target that mostly stays put and Gecko would update. It seems pretty clear that in order to get to a point where Firefox OS users have an up-to-date Gecko, it needs to be possible for Mozilla to push out a Gecko build to Gonk like pushing out a Firefox build for Android or Windows without requiring device-specific patches to be rebased and Gecko be rebuilt for each device as part of that process. I don't know who'd be the right person to ask about this. -- Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi https://hsivonen.fi/ _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
