I finally got seriously into the xulrunner packaging today (see ITP) and managed to get something that is able to run the MyBrowser sample XUL application (provided that you change the MaxGeckoVersion in the application.ini file in the mybrowser directory) and to gracefully let mozilla-browser run, while we override quite a few of its libraries.

As the long term plan for xulrunner is to be the XUL runtime for some (all?) mozilla.org applications, I moved all its libs to /usr/lib, overriding mozilla-browser's libnss3 and libnspr4. Upstream has this special feature that it doesn't support libraries versioning, so that it is usually a mess, but they are supposedly trying to freeze the API, which will hopefully fix a lot of the current issues with mozilla releases.

Anyways, xulrunner provides its own libnspr4 and libnss3 packages (actually, libnspr4.6 and libnss3.10), while diverting the original mozilla-browser files into /usr/lib/mozilla, and provides a libmozjs package providing spidermonkey, and a libsmjs1 compatibility package. The standalone spidermonkey package will have to be removed, it's outdated and redundant.

While libnspr4 and libnss3 from mozilla-browser could be removed and mozilla-browser could use xulrunner's ones, the contrary is not possible for libnspr4 because of some missing symbols. libnss3 is fine, though, maybe I'll allow xulrunner to use it. On the other hand, xulrunner's libmozjs makes mozilla segfaults...

When everything will be ready, I'll make an upload to experimental and will ask galeon, epiphany and other maintainers to check out if they can build their browser with the libgtkembedmoz provided by xulrunner, which is IMHO, the thing we'll have to do some day.

2005-08-16 19:33:29+0900

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