> The intent was to ship with the final release of > Firefox 3.1, but as 3.1 > morphed into 3.5 at Mozilla the build schedule > slipped, and we were stuck > with a beta. To avoid repeating this, 2010.03 went > with 3.5.x instead > of trying to track 3.6 betas, and I'm sure we'll get > complaints that 3.6 > is already out but not included. > > Unfortunately, there is an actual cost to being on > older Firefox releases, > since Mozilla stops producing security patches for > old releases after new > releases have been out for a while (6-12 months I > think), so if we choose > too old a release, we may stop getting security > patches during the lifetime > of the OpenSolaris release.
For example, in FreeBSD and Ubuntu there were times when two versions of firefox were provided: the default stable one, which was actual during OS release and the latest firefox release. You could have two versions - one necessary to satisfy all dependencies and another one - for people who wants to be on bleeding edge... In (Open)Solaris you can always use the latest FF release from mozilla community, but it were good to have latest version as option one in the IPS repository (maybe /contrib, not /release) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
