217217 - unable to detect Mozilla Firefox version (Build ID) from command line anymore

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Henrik Gemal]

my 4getmoz
http://gemal.dk/mozilla/4getmoz.html
used to work with mozilla firebird but it doesn't anymore.

it uses the content\global\build.dtd file inside the toolkit.jar file. but this
seems to have gone away!

HELP

Comment 1

[cls]

-> FB

Comment 2

[Pierre Chanial]

ah...
brand.dtd is now in locale/en-US/global in the new toolkit.
bryner, maybe we should put it back to content/global and strip the "Build ID:"
part?

Comment 3

[Henrik Gemal]

perhaps it could be fixed by fixing bug 179052

Comment 4

[Henrik Gemal]

Now we're back at the situation where you can detect the build ID from the
command line! brand.dtd has been removed!

Comment 5

[Henrik Gemal]

I could really need a buildid.txt file or something that contained the current
build id. I could image that other might want this too.

Comment 6

[Henrik Gemal]

Attachment: patch to add buildid

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Comment on attachment 154218 [details] [diff] [review]
patch to add buildid

Henrik: I know this is kinda premature, but imagine the situation where the
core toolkit/gecko were versioned separately from the firefox FE. Which buildID
would you want?

I removed the buildid from the locale/ package because l10n-packs are not built
at the same time as mozilla and would frequently have meaninless buildIDs. I
wouldn't mind adding it back to a content/ package if that seems useful. It's
very easy to do using a preprocessor directive.

Comment 8

[Henrik Gemal]

I'd be superglad if you could add it back to a content/ package

Comment 9

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

This bug might still represent a general class of problem. But without any activity for a decade, I don't think it is still relevant to have open.