Luke Faraone wrote: > Hi all, > > Currently, we are nearing the deadline for the Ubuntu release. The > Feature Freeze has already passed, so any new packages will need release > team approval. > > As-is, we do not have either Browse (xulrunner) or Surf (webkit) > included in Ubuntu. > > Browse depends on python-hulahop, which is a wrapper around pyxpcom. > From what I understand, pyxpcom was dropped from upstream xulrunner. > Efforts have been made to package pyxpcom, and there are debs available > for Debian, but as of today it has not been accepted into Debian or Ubuntu. > > pyxpcom currently has no upstream maintainer. From my discussions with > members of the Ubuntu team, it seems that it will not be included in > Maverick unless assurances are made that it will be kept updated with > new upstream Firefox releases, per the new Mozilla support model. > > Surf depends on Python bindings of Webkit, which are packaged, but as of > current in my testing Surf crashes on clicking on a link. (in Debian, I > also need to test in Ubuntu) Surf-115.xo http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/Surf-115.xo
works in USR-i386-20100804.iso http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/USR-i386-20100804.iso 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx Ubuntu maverick (development branch) Sugar 0.88.1 See: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Sugar web page. I have it installed to a USB 250 GB external hard disk and it works fine. Tom Gilliard satellit Activities tested against it : http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Soas_V4/ASLOxo_Activity_Test_Table#Activity_Test_Results > his makes the browser generally unusable. > The long term plan, from what I understand it, is to move over to > GObject introspection rather than the language-specific Python bindings. > > Thanks, > > ╒═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╕ > │Luke Faraone ╭Debian / Ubuntu Developer╮│ > │http://luke.faraone.cc ╰Sugar Labs, Systems Admin╯│ > │PGP: 5189 2A7D 16D0 49BB 046B DC77 9732 5DD8 F9FD D506 │ > ╘═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╛ > > -- Ubuntu-sugarteam mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-sugarteam
