RE: [Epiphany] Build Epiphany using Firebird

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <marco gnome org>]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 16:04, Colin Michael Yates wrote:
> FWIW, I think supporting *only* Firebird has the following advantages:
> 
>  - the philosophy of firebird is more in keeping (i.e. browser only)
>  - *much* smaller download for new users
>  - future proofing
> 
> To put it another way, what is the justification for using mozilla over
> firebird?

The reason is that mozilla is the official browser supported by
mozilla.org, which in practice has at least these advantages:

- Distributors will more likely ship it and install by default
- Easier to deal with mozilla bugs. Asking mozilla developers to
test a bug with epiphany is already difficult, if we request them to
build firebird it will become impossible.
- We dont need to change scripts like jhbuild again when firebird
is merged.

Marco