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 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
