Russell wrote:
The end comes with v2.x, Seamonkey and the decision to no longer be a simple
browser, but that it must be an ‘all or nothing' suite. So if you need to use
another email client then it will just screw up your whole way of working.
I'm convinced that this was a ‘behind the doors' decision with the Firefox crowd
to justify Mozilla supporting a second browser project, and they then agreed
that Seamonkey would only continue as an integrated suite, and that's the only
way users will be able to use it (fatal error imo).
The real story is that for SeaMonkey 2.0, the backend was switched from
the unmaintained XPFE, used for SeaMonkey 1.x, to toolkit, used by
Firefox and Thunderbird. This also meant using toolkit's installer.
Because Firefox and Thunderbird are stand-alone applications, before
SeaMonkey came along there was no reason to support installation of
separate application components, as there was only one. Hence why the
toolkit installer doesn't support it. All it supports is installing
additional extensions.
As mailnews is not an extension, it wasn't possible to package it as a
separate component. Maybe in the future the toolkit installer will
support additional components.
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