> Re. your PPS, note that it discusses the Gears run-time, not the code that > is part of the browser. If you know where I can obtain that part, I would > appreciate it, as if Gears is being abandoned, it is a necessary piece to > keep Gears apps running (until HTML5 can fully do what Gears does, at which > time I will jump ship).
Are you asking how to build extensions/plugins themselves? If so, this is indeed included in the source code repository. I've been making modifications to my google gears extensions for the past few months for some tests I've been running. If you do "make MODE=opt" you'll find the generated xpi file in gears/bin-opt/installers/gears-*-opt- *.xpi (and likewise for MODE=dbg). In addition, if you're making for a particular version of firefox or another browser, you can just use the libgears.so file which is generated (assuming linux), and overwrite the one in the your .mozilla/ firefox/*profile directory*/extensions/*extension id*/lib/ *ffversion*/. This is what I normally do. -Nicolas
