Wine Gecko versioning

[Jacek Caban]

On 11/27/12 16:33, Nikolay Sivov wrote:
> 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.

As Nikolay said, we have a Wiki page for that. It's not something we can
improve by different Gecko versioning.

> 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.

Sounds like a good idea, although we'll probably want to fix it by
including version information in Gecko downloader.

Thanks,
Jacek