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. Does this make it easier for non-firefox applications to ship the front end too? e.g. SeaMonkey. Does this make it easier to package the front end as an add-on? e.g. as a replacement for Venkman (DOA, RIP). Phil -- Philip Chee <phi...@aleytys.pc.my>, <philip.c...@gmail.com> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
