Re: Terminating xulrunner?

2014-01-12 Thread Dave Townsend
I sadly agree. While I still think there is value in XULRunner existing as a standalone runtime I don't think it is worth taking any time away from other work and it would be better to stand up and declare it dead instead of pretending like it is going to be around long-term. On Sun, Jan 12, 2014

Re: Terminating xulrunner?

2014-01-12 Thread Mark Finkle
Your proposal sounds somewhat similar to the way the webapprt is being delivered too. I think that's a good thing. - Original Message - > I propose that we just stop pretending, and terminate xulrunner, > considering the following: > - Xulrunner is lagging behind Firefox: DLL block list

Re: Terminating xulrunner?

2014-01-12 Thread Simon Kornblith
As a XULRunner app developer, as long as firefox -app application.ini continues to work I think I could learn to live with this. On Sunday, January 12, 2014 7:34:54 PM UTC-5, Mike Hommey wrote: > Hi, > > > > Let's face it: xulrunner is hardly maintained, we barely build and test > > it on aut

Terminating xulrunner?

2014-01-12 Thread Mike Hommey
Hi, Let's face it: xulrunner is hardly maintained, we barely build and test it on automation, and the result is that it is often broken for long periods of time. I propose that we just stop pretending, and terminate xulrunner, considering the following: - Xulrunner is lagging behind Firefox: DLL