2011/3/23 Nathaniel McCallum <nathan...@natemccallum.com>: > On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 16:41 -0500, Adam Miller wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 10:35:55PM +0100, Joshua C. wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > fedora is known for offering the "latest and greates software" and >> > "being on the edge" etc. So I was just wondering if the latest f14 >> > will ever get the latest firefox 4.0? >> > >> > Recompilation of the packages from f15 is not such a good option. >> > >> > --jason >> >> While we are known for latest and greatest, I'm not 100% sure the jump >> from Firefox 3.x to Firefox 4.x is within the most recent Updates >> Policy[0] because of the drastic changes between the two releases and >> the amount of user visible change that would result. I am also not the >> maintainer of Firefox so can't really speak to this in any form of >> authority but wanted to reply mainly for this next tid bit .... with >> many thanks to Spot, there is currently a fully functional Firefox 4 >> repository for Fedora 14, more information and instructions here: > > There are packages in the critical path which depend on xulrunner. > Firefox 4's xulrunner is neither ABI nor API compatible with earlier > versions. I can't help but think that such an update would be unwise. > > Nathaniel > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel >
I know this can be problematic but I like the spot's repo for giving us the chance to try this release. Maybe those "feature repos" should be incorporated somehow in the "official" repos? --joshua -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
