Re: What is Epiphany's role now?

[Jan de Groot <jan jgc homeip net>]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 20:54 +0200, Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> That was one reason yes, the other being that, as Epiphany depends on
> Firefox and XULRunner isn't ready for prime time, shipping two
> browsers
> doesn't make sense (especially if you want to fit it on 1 CD). 
> 
> Nevertheless, there are distros with Epiphany as default browser.
> Among
> them Arch Linux, Debian with GNOME (or so I was told) and recently
> accompanied by Foresight Linux.

We roll our own xulrunner tarballs from firefox release tags from CVS
(our xulrunner package follows firefox 2.0.0.x). SuSE does the same,
debian follows the firefox 1.5.0.x branch for xulrunner.

Debian, SuSE and Archlinux ship epiphany with xulrunner, which works out
fairly well. At the time epiphany got xulrunner support and the mozilla
foundation released the first tarball of xulrunner, we instantly
switched epiphany, galeon and all other gtkmozembed applications to
xulrunner, just to get rid of the "two browsers" problem on archlinux.