Hi,
Now that we have a new Gecko, the work isn't done yet. All packages have to be updated. Wine can use only the new version now, so if a package contains an older version, it won't work and Gecko installer will be used instead. The update is as simple as providing the new file instead of the old one, so I believe it's not too much work. Note that for older Wine versions, older Gecko must be used.
The problem is that we don't have a way to inform all packagers about updates (not all of them follow wine-devel) and it would be nice to have a communication channel so future releases won't have such problems. Austin suggested announcing on wine-announce. There are only a few people interested, so I could have a list of e-mail address or a Wiki page with e-mail addresses of interested people and send announcement e-mail directly. Please let me know, what works better.
I know about followed affected packages: - Gentoo ebuild I've CCed maintainer. - Ubuntu package - Mandriva Marco was recently interested in providing a package - winetricks BTW, Dan, I think it's a good idea to have a Gecko option, but people should learn about http://wiki.winehq.org/Gecko if possible instead of depending on winetricks to do something that we already have implemented in Wine.
I don't know about other distros, so please let me know if I've missed something.
Thanks, Jacek
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 13:24:27 Jacek Caban wrote:
The problem is that we don't have a way to inform all packagers about updates (not all of them follow wine-devel) and it would be nice to have a communication channel so future releases won't have such problems. Austin suggested announcing on wine-announce. There are only a few people interested, so I could have a list of e-mail address or a Wiki page with e-mail addresses of interested people and send announcement e-mail directly. Please let me know, what works better.
sf already has a notification process for updates ... i use that personally. i think debian/ubuntu have an automated way of checking updates with upstream packages ? -mike
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 13:24:27 Jacek Caban wrote:
Now that we have a new Gecko, the work isn't done yet. All packages have to be updated. Wine can use only the new version now, so if a package contains an older version, it won't work and Gecko installer will be used instead. The update is as simple as providing the new file instead of the old one, so I believe it's not too much work. Note that for older Wine versions, older Gecko must be used.
actually, why not add a simple configure check ? if the .cab exists but is too old, abort. package maintainers will figure things out real quick :). -mike
Mike Frysinger wrote:
actually, why not add a simple configure check ? if the .cab exists but is too old, abort. package maintainers will figure things out real quick :).
We can't do this, we don't have compile-time dependency on Gecko, so configure script doesn't know about it.
Jacek
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