Mike has finally set up a Camino build machine that run's jaguar and this means that until bug #224161 is resolved, we will continue to use Jaguar to build Camino. The print crasher should be fixed by now , it was a left over of the move to the trunk of Chimera.
I've been working, on bringing the toolbar tabbing bug up to the trunk. The patch does apply now, but it does not work. Basically I can tab from the search field to the URLbar, but can't tab the otherway around. When you shitf-tab, it works both way, this really is strange.
At work I don't use Camino, but Firebird as my desktop is win32. Since Ben Goodger is commiting the code to Firebird's installer, I wrote him a letter, asking him to add an .msi file to the installer. Why is it important to have .msi support for the foundation's product ?
Because it's the best way to inetgrate the corporate world. Imagine corporation A with 20k+ desktops computers, none of those being used by IT trained persons. Corporation A has a dedicated IT team whose job is to have those desktops running smoothly, virus, and hassle free. These people usually patch, update virus signature files, clean virus infected desktop and help users solve their problem. To do so they use teledistributing software, like USD. Most of those 20k+ desktops will run IE, because it's bundled with the OS and thus the above mentionned team has nothing to do, or very little to give Internet Access. Now Imagine what they should do If they wanted to migrate their users toFirebird.
They can't run the installer on 20k+ machines. They will use their teledistributing software. To do so they need to create a package that the software will then automatically install.
without MSI they should do:
They need to make an image of firebird for the combination of OS/hardware (20K+ means different vesion of OSes and services packs, different hardware ).
Test the install configuration of the software on all these platforms.
Restart because they missed something in the installer.
Retest etc ....
This takes time and it's costly, so they'll distribute the newset IE patch that comes with .msi support.
With MSI
The delivery software does know the .msi file format. They choose how to install from the msi file and just need to test, no packaging to do.
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