OLPC Policies Question Concerning Upgrading Default Installed Software

[anthony at evolutionindesignz.com]

>>It'll probably break both Firefox and Sugar's Browse -- they are 
>> tightly bound to the xulrunner version.
This is very useful information. Thank you very much.

On 11.01.2012 17:54, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 5:21 PM,  <anthony at evolutionindesignz.com> 
> wrote:
>> In particular, we are having issues with XULRunner 1.9.1.9. We are
>> considering unstalling this version and replacing it with XULRunner 
>> 8.0.
>
> It'll probably break both Firefox and Sugar's Browse -- they are
> tightly bound to the xulrunner version.
>
> So nobody is stopping you, but you need to know quite a bit to 
> rebuild
> or upgrade all the dependent bits, and deal with the (likely
> important) API changes.
>
> The xulrunner API changes were so painful (according to people 
> working
> on Browse) that for future Sugar versions we are moving to webkit; we
> are also dropping firefox on the Gnome side and switching to 
> something
> based on webkit.
>
> You are free to take it, bit seems like a damn rocky road.
>
>
>
> m