Re: Should GARNOME always build Mozilla?

[Cedric Marcone <marcone mdeo fr>]

Hi jeff,

As a testing plateforme garnome should always provide, as a default, the
newer technology. Tweakers and testers should have enough knowledge to
comment a dependency in a Makefile... 

I vote against this. Garnome should always give us the most recent
technology. And we should be in charge of adapting what it gives to us,
depending on our needs.

And by the way, thank you for the wonderful 0.26.2, gnome 2.4 rocks !
--
Cedric

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 10:30, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for some input into the future of Mozilla in GARNOME. At the
> moment, GARNOME builds Mozilla by default, as a requirement of Epiphany.
> 
> It is only truly useful on platforms that don't have a recent Mozilla, and
> when you're using a different compiler to your distro's default (C++ ABI
> issues, etc). Most platforms now have a sane default gcc, and a reasonable
> version of Mozilla (1.4), so it's a bit of a waste of time for the common
> case.
> 
> A quick and easy fix for this is to remove the dependency on the mozilla
> garball, and default to building against your distro Mozilla. The garball
> can stay for people who want to use it.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> - Jeff
> 
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