Wine Gecko versioning
Nikolay Sivov
bunglehead at gmail.com
Tue Nov 27 09:33:20 CST 2012
On 11/27/2012 17:26, Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2012 13:32:02 +0100
> Jacek Caban <jacek at codeweavers.com> wrote:
>
>> The idea is that Wine Gecko version could be just something based on
>> other versions, that are more informative.
>>
> Users don't care what version of Firefox the latest gecko is based on; most don't even realize it is based on Firefox. What does often confuse users, and which your suggested scheme doesn't address, is keeping track of which version of Wine uses which version of wine-gecko.
It's described here http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko. I guess failure
message loading gecko (in load_gecko()) could be improved adding
GECKO_VERSION to it so user clearly see what version he needs to have if
it's somehow not downloaded already.
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