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Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.platform
Date: 28 Mar 2007 10:24:53 -0700
Local: Wed, Mar 28 2007 1:24 pm
Subject: Re: Mozilla 2 repository migration dirlist
On Mar 28, 9:51 am, Gervase Markham <g...@mozilla.org> wrote:
> Benjamin Smedberg wrote: Because that's a lot of work we don't need to do right now, and can't > > This is a natural continuation of the plans to separate the "core" from the > > apps built on top of it. Firefox has a special place here because it is the > > primary app used to test the core, and its primary driver. > > All of our apps are going to be built on the xulrunner core in the moz2 > If the idea is that every XULRunner app apart from Firefox is built by afford to do right now. Mozilla 2 is already under way and it needs a repository. We need working Firefox and XULRunner built on it. > It would mean that whatever magic is necessary to There's no point in perfecting the separation of any given modules > perform such a combination is guaranteed to keep working. And it would > guarantee a clean interface between what was platform and what was not. before we start the Mozilla 2 repository. Nor must we do all that work in the 1.9 time frame -- most of it fits in Mozilla 2 much better. We are not going to spend all our time first cleaning up widget or gfx, or removing nss and nsprpub to their own repos, etc. etc. Shaver keeps attributing Voltaire's "best is the enemy of the good" to me, and what did Voltaire know? But it fits here. /be You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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