225770 - Split up Mozilla into libs and core

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 186291

(SeaMonkey :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[John R. Moser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031114 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: 

Mozilla itself comes with its own toolkit, GRE, etc.  Why not split up XLU and
GRE or whatever (I'm not too deep into researching exactly how moz works right
now, I've got the basic idea and that's all I need for this) into separate
libraries that can be upgraded and installed separately?  That way every time
you want to recompile mozilla you don't have to recompile all the GUI toolkits
and backends that Mozilla runs on.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That's exactly the goal of the GRE/toolkit effort, no?

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This is the point of the GRE+XRE, although upgradable binary compatibility is
still an issue because some of the interfaces that embedders would like to use
are not frozen or even solidified.

--BDS


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 186291 ***

Comment 3

[John R. Moser]

Hmm, yeah you say it's part of the GRE/toolkit effort, but I've never installed
or compiled anything called "GRE," just something called "Mozilla," which came
with GRE sources or binaries in it (this would be like Gnome-core having GTK+ in
its source tree).  I did a cursory search and didn't find any bugs mentioning
splitting GRE ount into a separate package, sorry if i missed something.   I'm
just tired of compiling Mozilla for 5 hours at a time.