105073 - Combine gfx2, accessible, libpr0n into SeaMonkeyAll

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Alec Flett]

These all come off the same branch, let's just combine them into the same
module... I'm attaching patches to the makefiles so that we don't pull redundantly.

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

Attachment: fix up mac, windows, linux makefiles

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

note, that this is just temporary to speed up the checkout process until we move
away from CVS modules..

Comment 3

[Chris McAfee]

r=mcafee.  we also need a patch for the modules file.

Comment 4

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

Wouldn't changing the SeaMonkeyAll definition screw up previous releases?  Say, I
wanted to pull and build 0.9.5, wouldn't it end up pulling gfx2, etc twice?  

Also, what speed up are we going to get by pulling everything at once?  I'm
speculating here but I'd think that multiple little pulls would be easier on the
cvs server, thereby increasing overall pull performance, than one huge pull.

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

well, there'll be a tiny speedup in that you don't have to hit the CVS server 3
times. The other bonus we'll get here is that checkins to these directories will
actually appear on bonsai and tinderbox, which they don't right now.

Comment 6

[Chris McAfee]

Can one pull a branched or tagged version of SeaMonkeyAll?

I think in the past when we've done major cvs module restructuring
we just created a new module and left the old one there.

Comment 7

[hacker formerly known as [e-mail]]

"hit the cvs server 3 times"?  You're incurring the additional overhead of what?
a login session?  You still have to send info on every file up to the server to
compare it.  Also, when checking out files, doesn't the server have to keep a
list of what files to download as it traverses the tree? Wouldn't keeping a huge
list for a longer amount of time incur more overhead than multiple smaller lists
for a shorter period of time?

In any case, this seems to go against a previously stated build team goal of
wanting to break up SeaMonkeyAll and stop relying upon cvs modules because of
their lack of flexibility.  So I'm marking it wontfix.

The fact that bonsai & tinderbox only show checkins for a single cvs module is a
separate known problem (bug 38191) that needs to be addressed regardless since
we're never going to get NSPR & NSS into the SeaMonkeyAll module.

Comment 8

[Jon Granrose]

verified wontfix.