457866 - Update MozillaBuild component software

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: MozillaBuild, task)

Description

[Mitchell Field [:Mitch]]

Most of the applications which make up MozillaBuild are out-of-date.
Here is a non-all-inclusive list of such software:
7-Zip
Blat
Mercurial
MSYS (and related stuff, like GNU Autotools)
NSIS
Python
Subversion
UPX
Wget
XEmacs
Zip

Comment 1

[Mitchell Field [:Mitch]]

Here's some more detail. I've tried to single out which applications seem to need updating the most.

App; included version; latest stable version; comments

7-Zip: 4.42; 4.57; performance improvements, bug fixes. http://www.7-zip.org/history.txt
Mercurial: 1.0.1+20080525; 1.02; two security fixes, numerous other bug fixes. http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02b
Perl: 5.6.1; 5.10.0; tonnes of bug fixes.
Python: 2.5; 2.5.2; numerous bug fixes. http://www.python.org/download/releases/2.5.2/NEWS.txt
Subversion: 1.4.2; 1.5.2; numerous bug fixes. http://subversion.tigris.org/svn_1.5_releasenotes.html#bug-fixes
Wget: 1.10.1; 1.11.4; bug fixes.

Comment 2

[Masayuki Nakano [:masayuki] (he/him)(JST, +0900)]

msys-1.0.dll should be updated to 1.0.11 or later. Because the current dll in MozillaBuild 1.3 doesn't support x64 environment.

See:
http://wiki.mozilla-x86-64.com/MSYS_and_Cygwin_on_x64_(AMD64)

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Yes, that's bug 415100. I've acquired a Vista x64 license, so I'll take some time soon to sort out the various bugs causing problems on that platform.

Comment 4

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Not compelling enough and this bug is too vague. MozillaBuild's purpose is to provide the tools for people to build Mozilla products on Windows, period. It is not a general purpose environment. If you want newer tools for some other reason, then install them separately. If there's a product-focused reason to update something, then file a specific bug on that, like with bug 404590.