377409 - Create toplevel targets for all products to create tarballs and installers

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Currently to make a tarball or an installer, you have to make a target in a special directory per-app:

browser/installer for Firefox
mail/installer for Tbird
xpinstall/packager for suite

This is silly. We should have a toplevel makefile target that does the Right Thing. This will reduce the amount of tinderbox logic we need (at least eventually), and will make FF+XR easier to manage.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Attachment: Unified toplevel targets, rev. 1

Comment 2

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Comment on attachment 261486 [details] [diff] [review]
Unified toplevel targets, rev. 1

Looks good; the only suggestion I might make is that installer, as a target, makes sense, but tarball, as a target, makes less sense in the case where on other platforms, you get something else (.zip on Win32, .??? on Mac?)

A "package" target or something might be clearer.

(We're just debating all sorts of names today, aren't we?) Other than that, this is going to be very helpful, I think. :-)

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Fixed on trunk a couple days ago with "package" instead of "tarball".