Nicolas: Thanks. I found the Wiki depository yesterday, and will be digging deep into it over the weekend. Your indication of having done this successfully makes me feel a lot better, as we have spent much time in making Gears a key part of the project and all the hubub about the "death" of Gears made quite a wave.
JG On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Nicolas <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > -- Jose Gonzalez 818-745-8190 [email protected]
