Comments on: Thoughts on XULRunner, Part Two: One XULRunner to Rule Them All

By: Avery

Avery — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:09:12 +0000

A geek that’s also a diplomat? This would mean Star Trek fans that like Deep Space Nine more than the other series.

By: The Mozilla Foundation and Platform Developers « davidwboswell

The Mozilla Foundation and Platform Developers « davidwboswell — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:57:17 +0000

[...] can help by organizing, guiding and facilitating — what Matthew Gertner has identified as a diplomatic mission that would make developers’ lives easier (both core developers and developers using the [...]

By: Paradise Road: Ken’s Blog » Blog Archive » Mozilla Gecko Office - Why Not?

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 02:36:20 +0000

[...] be the single best way to turn XUL-runner into the ultimate stand-alone platform like some have recently talked about [...]

By: Matthew Gertner

Matthew Gertner — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 09:04:15 +0000

Noel,

Can you be more specific? What exactly turned the shared runtime into a nightmare? In my naive imagination, one would simply have a versioned shared runtime and download a new version when necessary, leaving older versions as long as there are still apps on the machine that don’t support the newer version.

Although disk space is not a major consideration, download size still is. But I agree that there is a case for simply bundling a XULRunner with each app if versioning is really going to be a nightmare, even though I still feel that a unified codebase has many other advantages.

By: Noel Grandin

Noel Grandin — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:11:02 +0000

A shared runtime is a really really bad idea.
That’s just another variant on DLL-hell.

I can speak from experience because I’ve been doing Java for 10 years, and suffering the pain that comes from using a “shared runtime”.

Please don’t repeat Sun’s mistake.

You’d be much better off just focusing on making XULRunner easier to package and install as part of a third-party app.

Really, what does a shared-runtime gain us in these days of 100GB+ disks?

By: Matthew Gertner

Matthew Gertner — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 00:03:05 +0000

Ian – I don’t. What’s so ironic?

By: Ian Thomas (thelem)

Ian Thomas (thelem) — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:54:04 +0000

Does anyone else see the irony in “musing about” a “lack of clear goals”?

By: Caffeine Lab » Sharing XULRunner between applications

Caffeine Lab » Sharing XULRunner between applications — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:56:35 +0000

[...] Matthew Gertner proposes that all XULRunner applications (including Firefox) should share the same XULRunner instance. [...]

By: deriuqer

deriuqer — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:34:42 +0000

A geek that’s also a diplomat? This would mean Star Trek fans that like Deep Space Nine more than the other series.