Raising Mozilla on Linux Runtime Requirements Proposed

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on May 15, 2007 1:20 PM EDT
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Mike Connor has written a weblog post proposing raising the runtime requirements for Mozilla applications on Linux. 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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Most of it looks fine... DrDubious 1 1,068 May 16, 2007 7:37 AM

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