Wine Gecko status

[Michael Cronenworth]

On 8/9/19 1:59 PM, Jacek Caban wrote:
> I do plan to do a new release as soon as I will be able to work on it and it's 
> high on my TODO list. Earlier this year I was waiting for new Wine Mono 
> out-of-prefix installation to settle so I can do the same for Gecko. I believe 
> that it's proven right already, so it's just ETA is limited only by my time at 
> this point.

Glad to hear it.

>
> Historically, I was doing regular releases every few Firefox releases. Sadly, at 
> some point, it became impossible for us to use newer Gecko. That's why releases 
> are no longer as regular as they were in the past. The next release will be still 
> based on Gecko 47. And I agree it's been way too long, I'm definitely not happy 
> about that. I have quite a few changes I'd like to do for the release and that 
> includes fixing building with newer mingw-w64. I can't promise Python 3 support 
> through. Gecko build scripts are very complex and I'm not a Python expert. I will 
> look at it, but if it happens to require too much effort, I may decide to postpone 
> that for future releases.

I can look into Python 3 support when the time comes. The larger MinGW issues are 
time prohibitive for me.

>
> BTW, I just checked that I replied to your private email in May last year. I 
> didn't have anything concrete to say, but you should have heard from me ;)

Sorry. I may have missed the reply. :)

Regards,
Michael