152267 - installer needs devkit option

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Justin Kirby]

Currently, if a developer distributes a package with mozilla dependancies as
source, all users must download a src tarball from mozilla.org even if they have
mozilla installed.

Header files in dist/include and IDL files in dist/idl should have an option to
install. (also *.libs for win32 platform)

If an application is designed to be modular and extensible, then all necessary
information should be available post-installation to extend that application. It
is an unnecessary step to require a seperate download.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

The installer distributes a client to be used, not to be extended. Developers
extend products, not users.

Should mozilla.org offer a development kit smaller than an entire source
tarball? Probably, but an SDK is not part of the product itself, it's a separate
thing.

If your source product requires Mozilla headers to compile there's nothing
stopping you from including those headers with the source for your product. If
you're not using frozen interfaces it doesn't really matter if the build fails
when your users try to compile against newer headers or if the binaries fail
when they try to run against a mismatched interface.

Other folks are working on the "Mozilla Runtime Environment", and some sort of
development kit is part of their plan. search www.mozilla.org

Comment 2

[Grace Bush]

verified