On 1/22/2014, 3:12 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
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:
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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.
Jonas, do you happen to know more about this?
Thanks!
Ehsan
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