libera #seamonkey

22 Sep 2023

Surfing the net has never been so suite | SeaMonkey Release:2.53.19 Beta:2.53.20b1| seamonkey-project.org/releases | This channel is logged at logbot.thereisonlyxul.org/seamonkey | SeaMonkey Nightly:2.53.21b1pre Archive archive.seamonkey-project.org/nightly | c-c (OPEN ) , c-253 (APPROVAL ONLY)

• 09:11
  njsg
  the thing is that sometimes there *is* breakage, I think there was one library Gentoo once allowed to be used from the system - cairo, I think - that wouldn't work well
• 09:13
  njsg
  using the system-wide shared library should be ok (as in: things will work with no crashes or graphical corruption or...) as far as it's compatible with the bundled library
• 09:14
  njsg
  meanwhile, I wonder if the statically-linked NCSA Mosaic binary still runs on IA-32 :-P
• 16:21
  JamminUnit
  Things start to become nasty when projects diverge bundled stuff from their originators. Best example is sqlite in Mozilla. I am still grumpy that I cannot use system-sqlite in seamonkey anymore :-(
• 21:45
  alinoge
  sqlite is a fair bit more complex than use system jpeg or something.
• 21:46
  alinoge
  You can allow some system libraries without letting them run around doing really weird stuff.
• 21:47
  alinoge
  The first users of libjpeg-turbo were on Linux because you could just compile the thing to use system jpeg.