New Wine Gecko package

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Fri Feb 6 17:00:13 CST 2009


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:11 AM, Jerome Leclanche <adys.wh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:48 AM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
>> James Mckenzie wrote:
>>> It depends on the timeline for the 1.2 release.
>>> If this is a long way off, it may be worth the effort.
>>
>> I don't know.  The 1.1 branch has are lots of improvements
>> people want; what's so special about Gecko?
>> IMHO we should leave the 1.0 branch alone,
>> and just get on with 1.2.
>
> I agree. The potential security issues that have been fixed would
> (from what I understood) specifically target Wine. Targeting Wine
> 1.0.1 would be... pretty restricted. I don't think it's worth
> investing time for something like this when 1.2 is coming soon.

It doesn't really matter if 1.2 is coming soon or not. 1.0.1 is meant
to be stable, and backporting gecko 0.9.1 and it's necessary
infrastructure doesn't constitute a 'stable' fix/patchset.

-- 
-Austin



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