At first I tried for a couple of days to try to get xulrunner 16.0.2 to work on my OSX 10.6, until I understoo it wasn't working at all running the 'xulrunner -v' will return an 'error' string where the version should come out.
Looking in forums such as this I found out it is a well known error, that there is actually a bug reported from last year about it, which does not have anybody working on it. So I changed my focus to 'Macports' they have two packages available where only 'xulrunner-devel' which is at version 2.0, actually worked. I got in contact with the previous maintainer and he dropped the support for the package 9 months ago because it was taking too much of his time to maintain the package, he said that he kept battling with the code making bug reports to get each version to work on OS X. Well enough, I got to an understanding that the platform is supported primarly to have FF or TB be able to work on OSX, were this project have their own maintainers, for what I'm seeing it is my deduction that the mac compilation is being done automatically and nobody is actually taking the time to try it out on OS X platform. By making post I would like to raise concern about this, probably the use of xulrunner on OS X is not very popular I would say that nobody has asked for this before. I could surely go about and start taking care of this myself, although I would like to get more acquainted with the platform to understand more the parts of it. Currently I've developed an extension and now I'm going to start my first application which I'm kind of stuck using version 2.0 of the platform. I'm not sure if I'm really the only one with this issue, but surely I would like to hear from anyone else if they themselves would like to see xulrunner be more compatible with OS X, and if can't be more compatible why is that to see if any of us can help. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
