Retiring B2G Desktop builds

[Staś Małolepszy]

Hello dev-l10n,

In bug https://bugzil.la/1132225 we're discussing the future of B2G Desktop
builds which are currently available from [1].

I wonder how many of you still use B2G Desktop builds for localization
testing? Have you migrated to using Firefox OS Simulator and/or the
Firefox WebIDE? If you do use B2G Desktop, do you use it with the bundled
Gaia profile or do you launch it with your own custom-built profile from
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/ ?

Feel free to let us know. It looks like we might retire B2G Desktop builds
soon but there are many better alternatives and we'd be happy to help you
learn about them and migrate over.

Thanks,
-stas

[1]
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/

[F Wolff]

Hi Staś

I still use it, mostly because it looked like the easiest option the
first time I looked at it, and it worked ok since. I guess if it stops
working I'll look into the other ways, but I thought I'll respond to
the question. I build my own Gaia profile (it took a while to see how
to run it correctly - can't remember why I struggled initially).

Keep well
Friedel

[Staś Małolepszy]

Hi Friedel,

Thanks for the note! If you build your own profile, not much will change
for you except for the binary you launch the profile with. Today it's the
B2G Desktop's binary and in the future it will be Firefox's or Mulet's
binary.

Hopefully this transition will be smooth for you but do let me know if you
run into trouble when the changes are made. The new solutions should be
easier and more powerful then B2G Desktop ever was, I hope you'll enjoy
them!

Best,
-stas

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