Re: external dependencies

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 9/12/06, Christian Persch <chpe gnome org> wrote:
> I would prefer to use the cvs/svn/whatever modules on the tag
> corresponding to the release, if it exists. That way you can use your
> jhbuild checkout to make patches (cvs diff), which is impossible for
> tarball builds.

Slightly more involved (and perhaps wasteful of a bit of disk space),
but by no means impossible.  People do it all the time.  ;-)

> > I've put together a _preliminary_ page to help push these two ideas
> > along at http://live.gnome.org/TwoPointSeventeen/ExternalDependencies.
> > There may be inaccuracies or omissions there, but it has the basics
> > already.  Thoughts?  Comments?
>
> >From that lgo page:
>
> > xulrunner (mozilla)
> > 1.5.0.6
> > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.6/source/
>
> The link points to the firefox source, not xulrunner.

Fixed now, thanks for pointing it out.

> While xulrunner 1.8.0 doesn't suffice for epiphany dependency (you need
> some patches), xulrunner from the 1.8 branch (what the current jhbuild
> moduleset is building: MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH) does. There's going to be a
> xulrunner 1.8.1 _release_ some time after the ff 2.0 release (see
> http://benjamin.smedbergs.us/blog/2006-08-22/xulrunner-updates/ ), so I
> think it should be safe to use that as the gecko dependency version for
> epiphany for the Gnome 2.18 release.

Sounds great, thanks.  :)