It's natural that engineers in different parts of the organisation and community will have different priorities.
Let's all take a deep breath and keep the discussion calm, please. Nick On Sat, Apr 30, 2016 at 1:30 AM, <sn...@snorp.net> wrote: > On Friday, April 29, 2016 at 2:44:25 AM UTC-5, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> >> > Given it's WinXP only (and Firefox for Android's recalcitrance ;-) >> >> I think the situation where Firefox for Android is holding back >> Gecko's ability to improve the codebase by getting rid of Netscape-era >> code makes no sense, either. I think a Platform should put its foot >> down and refuse letting Gecko development be handcuffed like this. >> Taking the Android situation is a permit to introduce more build >> configurations that omit ICU is entirely backwards. > > The Fennec team has been very clear about why they oppose inclusion of ICU in > bug 1215247. This type of attitude is why we have people in the Firefox org > wanting to axe Gecko. The engineers in Platform consistently want to dismiss > mobile-specific issues, and this is a great example. If you really want to > get ICU into Fennec, find a way to do it without bloating the APK size > instead of bullying the Fennec folks. > > James > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
