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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] seamonkey -> nss vs nspr
From:       Jeroen Roovers <jer () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2006-07-27 10:48:45
Message-ID: 20060727124845.122ddaaa () epia ! jeroenr-c2 ! orkz ! net
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On Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:04:11 +0200
Martin Schlemmer <azarah@nosferatu.za.org> wrote:

> Anyhow, that is the whole issue with mozilla stuff in general - huge
> hunk of code that is not really modular, and have to be rebuild for a
> few to many projects.  While I am all for getting the POS more modular
> (which we at least did for nspr and nss), you will need to get
> cooperation from upstream, as they used to give a rats ass about abi
> compatibility when I was more involved with it, and loads of time if
> you actually want to try and do it yourself (which is more than I have
> currently), plus even more courage, as currently it will need to be
> done for probably at least 6-12 projects (nss, nspr, suite, browser,
> mail, minimo, composer, calendar, xulrunner, macbrowser, standalone,
> maybe chat, etc).

Not to mention replacing (dev/lang/)spidermonkey (which IMHO should be
removed from the tree) with a current libjs... I see lots of room for
improvement upstream. :)


Kind regards,
     JeR
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