On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 12:15:22PM +0800, Philip Chee wrote:
> On 23/07/2015 14:40, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 02:34:50PM +0800, Philip Chee wrote:
> >> On 22/07/2015 05:54, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote:
> >>> The DevTools team is planning to move our code out of
> >>> /browser/devtools and /toolkit/devtools and into a new top level
> >>> /devtools directory.
> >>>
> >>> The main goals of this are to reduce confusion for new DevTools
> >>> contributors and help us better organize our work in the future.
> >>> It will also aid future users of the code in understanding what
> >>> pieces they need to include.
> >>>
> >>> There should be no impact to DevTools features shipped in
> >>> different products: Firefox desktop will continue to be the only
> >>> product that ships the DevTools front end, and all others will
> >>> ship the DevTools server only.
> >>
> >> What is the utility of shipping the back end without the front end?
> >
> > Remote-debugging Thunderbird with the devtools in Firefox.
>
> Nice.
Note that's not new. The backend has been in toolkit forever.
> Does this make it easier for non-firefox applications to ship the
> front end too? e.g. SeaMonkey.
As a matter of fact, the move to a different directory may help with
that, since it's going to be easier to add that directory to the build
system of non-Firefox apps without having to deal with the browser/
directory. That said, the code is not chrome://browser/ independent, so
while this will make it easier, it's barely a small step.
Mike