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Raising Mozilla on Linux Runtime Requirements Proposed (MozillaZine)

[Posted May 15, 2007 by ris]

MozillaZine takes a look at a weblog post by Mike Connor on Mozilla's runtime requirements. "Historically, Mozilla on Linux has had fairly conservative requirements, employing runtime checks and workarounds to support older libraries or work around known bugs. While this means that Mozilla applications will run on older Linux distributions, it has led to some compromises and ugly hacks in the Mozilla code, making it harder to maintain."
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Raising Mozilla on Linux Runtime Requirements Proposed (MozillaZine)

Posted May 18, 2007 12:33 UTC (Fri) by pointwood (guest, #2814) [Link]

I would say it depends on how long they expect to keep supporting older
releases. If the next release can't run on a lot of current distros, then
the current release ought to be supported for quite some time after the
release.


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