[jbosstools-dev] Do we still need our own XulRunner?

[Yahor Radtsevich]

Hi,

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Mickael Istria <mistria at redhat.com> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> While I'm trying to see what can be cleaned in parent pom, I've made some
> investigations around XulRunner. My starting points were those 2 issues:
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-12455 (existing profiles for
> macosx, to run tests using a 32-bits JVM apparently because of XulRunner)
> https://issues.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-5418 (general issue about XulRunner
> and MacOSX Cocoa 64-bits)
>
> I've asked Eclipse forums on this topic and it appears that SWT ships its
> own version of XulRunner as part of the SWT platform-specific fragments:
> http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/377759/915713/#msg_915713
>
> Then I'm wondering why use a copy of XulRunner? Is it still necessary? If
> SWT has a XulRunner for Cocoa 64bits, why do we have specific profiles to
> use 32bits?
>
SWT ships libraries for XULRunner support only, it does not ship XULRunner
itself.

>  Any help is welcome, and even more that help, some tests on Cocoa 64 bits!
>
We can not run any XULRunner/VPE tests on Cocoa 64-bit, unless we
build/find a stable XULRunner 1.9.x for it.

>
> Cheers,
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> Mickael Istria
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Best Regards,
Yahor Radtsevich
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