sylvestre

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1. 31.▲
   by sylvestre 5y ago

   Nope but snap and flatpak are provided: https://snapcraft.io/firefox https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.mozilla.firefox
2. 32.▲
   by sylvestre 5y ago

   Indeed, 3 months ago: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52821#c319
3. 33.▲
   by sylvestre 6y ago

   This is one of the thing that I loved starting using rg :)
4. 34.▲
   by sylvestre 6y ago

   Wahou; this is terrific work! It would have saved me hours of work if I had known that before! Thanks for sharing!
5. 35.▲
   by sylvestre 6y ago

   There is a package for nix: https://gitlab.tryp.io/nix/nixpkgs/-/tree/bodhi/pkgs/tools/m... (but not up to date)
6. 36.▲
   by sylvestre 6y ago

   Significantly bigger than the C version. Rust: 73M source: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/rust-coreutils C: 17M https://packages.debian.org/unstable/coreutils Note that no size optimizat
7. 37.▲
   by sylvestre 6y ago

   Because it often finds security issues in our code: see the graph at the end of the blog post. If opensource, this fuzzer could be used against our users... AFAIK, Mozilla doesn't sell any software!
8. 38.▲
   by sylvestre 6y ago

   We will still have jobs to build Firefox with gcc and gcc is not going anywhere in general: the % of package built with clang in Debian/Ubuntu is a fraction compared to gcc. Nathan Froyd wrote this great blog post about compiler usage:
9. 39.▲
   by sylvestre 6y ago

   Yeah but this will probably change too.
10. 40.▲
    by sylvestre 6y ago

    Yeah, clang for all platforms for a couple years now
11. 41.▲
    Porting Firefox to Apple Silicon(hacks.mozilla.org)

    644 points by sylvestre 6y ago|236 comments
12. 42.▲
    by sylvestre 15y ago

    And I will be happy to help contributors in this task!
13. 43.▲
    by sylvestre 15y ago

    Thanks. I appreciate ! :)
14. 44.▲
    by sylvestre 15y ago

    We are not reinventing anything. We are dropping a package which won't be supported anymore. More over, JDK/JRE 7 is already in the Debian archive and available.
15. 45.▲
    by sylvestre 15y ago

    Yes, it is "only" a license issue.
16. 46.▲
    by sylvestre 15y ago

    Please give me bug reports which shows that openjdk is not ready for production. I will be interested to report them upstream.
17. 47.▲
    by sylvestre 15y ago

    As the author of this "crap", I am taking the opportunity to detail this position. If you are interested in such issues, you are probably aware that Oracle has made the openjdk-7 the base target development of the JVM. Proprietary versions