Help! Summarizing the xulrunner situation in OLPC

Daniel Drake dsd at laptop.org
Wed Jul 16 13:48:26 EDT 2008


On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 13:44 -0400, Jim Gettys wrote:
> Daniel,
> 
> It is quiet possible we'll want to pick up gnomevfs2 as a basic library
> in a future release (think about the OLPCfs method of accessing the
> journal).  We didn't want the old gnomevfs library since that pulled in
> the old bonobo horror as a dependency. I'm not familiar with libgnome,
> and therefore have no opinion there.

My mistake - we already ship gnome-vfs2 and are not dropping it. A sugar
component actually requires it. Enabling gnome-vfs2 support in xulrunner
should not be an issue.

libgnome is the component which is a dependency headache.

Daniel





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