[ros-dev] Proposal for FF support drop

[Andrew Faulds]

Yeah, it surprises me we don't already do this. Rapps requires an
internet connection anyway, so making it download the apps list isn't
a problem.

On 16 January 2012 20:41,  <caemyr at myopera.com> wrote:
> Again, why cant we host a file with all the links in some format, like xml, accessible via (Win)SCP and simply point Rapps to download it? This way, we can edit it relatively easy, without any fuss and wasting commits. A simple, daily copy for backup would suffice, with one month of upkeep. This file doesn't really need to be in svn...
>
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012, at 07:42 PM, victor martinez wrote:
>>
>> > Since 3.6 is obsolete, I'd personally not keep it.
>> >
>> > I'd say we should have FF2 and FF "latest".
>>
>>
>> FF2 is even more obsolete than FF3.6
>> I'd just keep the more stable version of each app.
>> Rapps is supposed to be a showroom of apps working "relatively" well in
>> ReactOS.
>> It doesn't have too much sense of showing apps which doesnt work at all,
>> unless they are regressions..and we should try to fix them.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > On 16 January 2012 19:07, Pierre Schweitzer <pierre at reactos.org> wrote:
>> > > Le dimanche 15 janvier 2012 à 22:25 +0000, Andrew Faulds a écrit :
>> > >> That actually redirects to:
>> > >> http://download-eu.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-latest-euballot&os=win&lang=en-GB
>> > >> which redirects to latest exe.
>> > >>
>> > >> So we should use that URL. (removing the -euballot breaks it, it
>> > >> seems, so it only works for the EU ballot version)
>> > >
>> > > It appears we have here the solution.
>> > > And it even supports language selection.
>> > >
>> > > Last point: do we really need FireFox 3.6 support? Which is also in
>> > > rapps?
>> > >
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