286806 - Package mailnews chrome files directly from mozilla\mail

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Scott MacGregor]

Apparently jar.mn files now have this new trick where you can package a chrome
file from a different directory. 

i.e. in mozilla\mail\base\jar.mn i can have a line like:

content/messenger/subscribe.js (/mailnews/base/resources/content/subscribe.js) 

which will reach down into the mailnews direcory and snag subscribe.js from there.

This means several things:

1) You could now modify shared chrome files that live in mailnews but still just
rebuild mozilla\mail without having to rebuild both directories like you
currently have today.

2) I can get rid of all the '+' lines in mozilla\mail's jar.mn files that force
us to overwrite existing files.

3) We can stop running the mozilla\mailnews jar manifest files

Comment 1

[Scott MacGregor]

FYI, Neil pointed this trick out to me a while ago. 

Comment 2

[Scott MacGregor]

Attachment: the fix

asking David for sr, mostly so he's aware that he won't have to build chrome
from two directories anymore. 

This gets rid of all the force overides (+) in the manifest files. mozilla\mail
now looks into mailnews to grab any shared chrome files. Ifdefed the jar
manifest in mozilla\mailnws to do nothing for Thunderbird.