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Bug#450850: Update



Ok the latest story on this is as follows.

The original mozlib code that used the Mozilla xulrunner core got to a
stage where it was basicly usable, when working with xulrunner-1.8 code
base. xulrunner-1.9 has completely broken the API and the mozlib code no
longer works and it appears that it extremely difficult even to make it
work ever again with xulrunner-1.9 +. Upstream did try to contact
mozilla but this kind of embedding is not a priority for them so they
were not really interested.

Upstream has now abandoned mozilla/xulrunner in favour of webkit, in
particular the qt4 flavour of the webkit implementation. Currently this
version I have functional, and it can be built in to a debian package on
lenny or sid and used successfully, but with some bugs still.

I'm keeping my debian build details here
http://omvviewer.byteme.org.uk/mozlib-webkit.shtml

A current list of bugs against the webkit build can be seen here
http://jira.secondlife.com/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&mode=hide&pid=10050&sorter/order=DESC&sorter/field=priority&resolution=-1&component=10300

I'm going to keep updating my git tree with the latest releases of
upstreams code but its not really fit for a package until some of these
MOZ-XX bugs are squashed on the above jira issue tracker. But this is
being actively worked on now. There are a large number of very recent
bugs because upstream has just passed the code to there Q/A department
for a first parse so these should start to be knocked off one by one soon.

Robin





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