Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Joe Smith wrote:
Matthew Miller wrote:
...
In short, there's no compelling reason to go to Firefox 2.0, and
Fedora will
probably skip it.
Having gone ahead and installed Christopher Aillon's test packages on my
devel-tree machine, this seems like a really good decision to me.
He mentions technical reasons to avoid it, but I can't entirely follow
the discussion.
Can anyone explain succinctly why my FC5 can process a dozen updates a
week, including kernel updates, but this one is "just too much trouble"?
Fedora version of Firefox has pango related patches which enable better
I18N support that would be need to be updated,tested and vetted through
Mozilla for example. The decision of doing a major update like this is
generally left to the software developer and maintainer of the package
and obviously he doesnt believe that the current version is worth the
effort to provide as a update in this case. Experimental versions have
been posted to fedora-devel list. If users really want it, they can use
that.
Rahul
Can someone add that last part to:
Fedora Core 6 - Common Bugs and Known Issues
( http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugs/FC6Common )
Perhaps, something like:
ISSUE: How to install Firefox 2.0
---------------------------------
For a variety of reasons, we are not planning to update to Firefox
2.0. We are instead focusing resources on Firefox 3.0, which will
provide much more substantial benefits. We understand that some
users will be willing to accept the risk of running Firefox 2.0 to
gain compatibility with new extensions (e.g., Zotero and
Halfnote). We have made available an experimental version of
Firefox 2.0. However, we must stress that we believe the best
experience for Fedora users will be to stay with Firefox 1.5 and
wait for the Firefox 3.0 update. The experimental development
version is available here:
http://people.redhat.com/caillon/RPMS/fc7/
Alternatively, it might make more sense to point users to the parallel
install package submitted for review for inclusion in EXTRAS:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=211807
Having FF2.0 coexist with FF1.5 would make it easier for users to
safely evaluate whether FF2.0 is ready to meet their needs (e.g., is
compatibible with their favorite extensions).
See also this bug that tracks the general issue of best recommendation
to give users wishing to install Firefox 2.0 on Fedora Core 6.:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=213177
Thanks
Dustin Ratliffe
