Re: Wine Gecko 1.2.0 RC1

[Michael Stefaniuc]

On 03/10/2011 08:58 PM, Jacek Caban wrote:
> On 3/10/11 8:33 PM, Scott Ritchie wrote:
> > Will the new Gecko be coinstallable with earlier geckos, eg for wine1.2?
> > It would be very useful to me if this were the case (and Wine were
> > smart enough to use the correct one depending on its version).
>
> No, we need to use exactly the same version of Gecko that Wine is
> compiled for. Making Gecko releases backward compatible is impossible.
> The API is not frozen and the behavior we depend on changes quite often.

I think what he meant is if we have more than one Gecko's installed. 
Though i'm not sure if he means two dpkg/rpm installed at the same time 
or Gecko installed in the WINEPREFIX at the same time.

bye
    michael