[jbosstools-dev] Re: Moving to XulRunner 1.9

[Maxim Areshkau]

Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
>
>>>>>> Do you know why Fedora/Red Hat builds of xulrunner disables the
>>>>>> javaxpcom ? 
>>>>>
>>>>> No, but you should ask Chris Aillon. He can give you the details. 
>>>> Chris, do you know the answer ?
>>>>
>>>> Do you know why Fedora/Red Hat builds of xulrunner disables the
>>>> javaxpcom in their xulrunner ? 
>>
>> It's not so much as disabling it (it's disabled by default).  We just
>> haven't enabled it.  AFAIK, it's not really that maintained by
>> upstream and when I've played with it in the past[*], it sometimes
>> would refuse to compile or link when doing version upgrades.  Since
>> we need to push out security updates very quickly -- we've had two
>> critical firedrills in the past month alone where we needed to go
>> from issue reported to packages built, QE done, and errata shipped
>> live in a 24 hour span -- I am not very keen on adding additional
>> code that is prone to breaking.
> Thanks for the info.
>
> I don't have the resources to promise that the javaxpcom will work/be
> maintained so i guess for now we will just continue to bundle the
> eclipse/mozilla custom built one so any security issues is not exposed
> in the general browser but only in the development tooling
> where it is less of an issue since it is primarily used to access
> local sites.
>
> /max
What does this mean for question move VPE on xulrunner 1.9 or not?