GNUs Icecat 4 based on Firefox 4 has had its first RC released, be great to see this in portage. http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2011-03/msg00026.html Reproducible: Always
My plan is to add icecat-4.0 as soon as there's a final release. I won't add any release-candidates or other unofficial versions to the tree.
Ok, cool, seems sensible, hopefully it won't be too long. (Would be nice if xulruner could be slotted to allow FF-4 and Icecat-3.* to be simultaneously installed, but thats an issue for a separate bug). Thanks for the quick response.
Check out the comments on http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14169
(In reply to comment #2) > Ok, cool, seems sensible, hopefully it won't be too long. > > (Would be nice if xulruner could be slotted to allow FF-4 and Icecat-3.* to be > simultaneously installed, but thats an issue for a separate bug). > > Thanks for the quick response. Indeed. xulrunner used to be properly slotted (1.8 and 1.9 branches) but then xulrunner 2 was placed in the 1.9 slot, rendering the mechanism useless. Would it be possible to create a 2.0 slot?
(In reply to comment #4) > (In reply to comment #2) > > Ok, cool, seems sensible, hopefully it won't be too long. > > > > (Would be nice if xulruner could be slotted to allow FF-4 and Icecat-3.* to be > > simultaneously installed, but thats an issue for a separate bug). > > > > Thanks for the quick response. > > Indeed. xulrunner used to be properly slotted (1.8 and 1.9 branches) but then > xulrunner 2 was placed in the 1.9 slot, rendering the mechanism useless. Would > it be possible to create a 2.0 slot? No we will not be slotting any more xulrunner, we are fixing to slot move to 0 and be done with slotted xulrunner all together.
(In reply to comment #5) > No we will not be slotting any more xulrunner, we are fixing to slot move to 0 > and be done with slotted xulrunner all together. I see. May I ask why and whether the decision is motivated by technical issues?
(In reply to comment #6) > (In reply to comment #5) > > No we will not be slotting any more xulrunner, we are fixing to slot move to 0 > > and be done with slotted xulrunner all together. > I see. May I ask why and whether the decision is motivated by technical issues? pkg-config files would need to be versioned for one, which mozilla team is not large enough to handle, not to mention any package that uses non versioned pkg-config files would need to be patched. We also have the reason that people are not moving forward but instead wanting to continue to depend on older less secure versions.
(In reply to comment #7) > (In reply to comment #6) > > (In reply to comment #5) > > > No we will not be slotting any more xulrunner, we are fixing to slot move to 0 > > > and be done with slotted xulrunner all together. > > I see. May I ask why and whether the decision is motivated by technical issues? > > pkg-config files would need to be versioned for one, which mozilla team is not > large enough to handle, not to mention any package that uses non versioned > pkg-config files would need to be patched. We also have the reason that people > are not moving forward but instead wanting to continue to depend on older less > secure versions. Thanks for your reply. I still wish the slotting was possible, but I understand your position.
IceCat 4.0 is out! http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/4.0/
+*icecat-4.0 (14 Apr 2011) + + 14 Apr 2011; Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> + +files/2000-icecat_gentoo_install_dirs.patch, + -files/xulrunner-1.9.2-gtk+-2.21.patch, -icecat-3.6.15.ebuild, + +icecat-4.0.ebuild, +files/5001_fix-prefs-directory.patch, + +files/fix-preferences-gentoo.patch: + Version bump. Removed old. + KEYWORDS.dropped www-client/icecat/icecat-4.0.ebuild: ppc ppc64
