Firefox 1.0.x sunset announcement and Breezy

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Wednesday 19 April 2006 09:02, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 April 2006 03:06, Alexander Jacob Tsykin wrote:
> > Second, you are missing something obvious. All
> > applications which depend on firefox would have to be recompiled if
> > firefox were to be upgraded to 1.5. Also all packages which depend
> > on any other package compiled from the firefox source code. This is
> > a massive endeavour.
>
> Actually it's not such a big deal to recompile like that. These things
> are easily automatable. The lead developer commits a new Firefox to
> the server farm, come back tomorrow and every package has been
> recompiled and could even be on the web servers ready for download.
> Make that all packages on all supported architectures. (Assuming
> Ubuntu uses a server farm system, there's no reason to suppose they
> don't)
>
> The users might have a problem with the size of the new downloads
> though. And their plugins and extension might not work anymore. As I
> see it those would be the primary things to be figured out before
> switching.
>
the plugins and extensions would not work, and also, if things don't work, and 
some things are bound not to, its a lot of work to fix them.

Sasha