1187803 - XULRunner no more downloadable from Mozilla from Fx 42

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Mozilla Platform, defect, P3)

Description

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

:: Developer Documentation Request

      Request Type: Correction
     Gecko Version: unspecified
 Technical Contact: 

:: Details

Ben Hearsum wrote on dev.platform:
Hi folks,

XULRunner is a runtime package that can be used to run XUL+XPCOM based
applications. Automated builds of it have been produced alongside
Firefox since 2006, but it has not been a supported or resourced product
for many years. We've continued to produce automated builds of it
because its build process also happens to build the Gecko SDK, which we
do support and maintain. This will change soon, and we'll start building
the Gecko SDK from Firefox instead (bug 672509). This work will land on
mozilla-central during the 42.0 cycle, which means that when the 41.0
cycle ends (September 22, 2015), automated builds of XULRunner will cease.

If you are a consumer of the Gecko SDK this means very little to you --
we will continue to produce it with every Firefox release.

If you are a consumer of the XULRunner stub this means that you will no
longer have a Mozilla produced version after 41.0. For folks in this
group, you have two options:
* Change your app to run through the stub provided by Firefox. Many apps
will continue to work as before by simply replacing "xulrunner.exe
application" with "firefox -app application.ini".
* Build XULRunner yourself.

- Ben

Comment 1

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

I've updated https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/XULRunner

and asked Ben for review.

ni/ myself not to forget to close this when I get the review

Comment 2

[Duan Yao]

Hi Jean-Yves Perrier,
Does "build XULRunner yourself" means we can just build XULRunner-stub? We are able to build entire XULRunner ourselves, but it is quite time-consuming.

By the way, what is the problem of ship XULRunner-stub binary within Gecko SDK?

Comment 3

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

XULRunner is now dead and archived.