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Re: Versioning rust (firefox91 again)



Hello,

pin writes:
> [...]
> > Things will get better once the language stabilizes, or even gets
> > standartizized. But as we have seen with the recent C and C++ std
> > versions discussion, non-dead languages always are able to introduce
> > some kind of versioning pain in the real world.
>
> True, I just don't see an EOL web-browser as the reason for versioning.
>
> As mentioned already, I understand keeping some applications for users.
> I wouldn't think it's bad to keep a minor application that has a dead upstream
> or, that has been EOL. But, a web-browser is a different story, it's a security
> risk.
> [...]

www/firefox91 is the last version that still works for screen
recording.

Please see PR pkg/56955 (last time I've tried also www/firefox has the
same problems and that makes both www/firefox102 and www/firefox
unusable in such contexts).


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