415181 - Package the MAR generation tools for easy external usage

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Packaging the MAR tools and scripts for easy download would make it easier for other XULRunner/Mozilla developers to make MARs and do updates.

Comment 1

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Mass move of bugs from Release Engineering:Future -> Release Engineering. See
http://coop.deadsquid.com/2010/02/kiss-the-future-goodbye/ for more details.

Comment 2

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

I've generated a current set of mar tools on our 3 core platforms and put them up on people:

http://people.mozilla.com/~coop/mar-generation-tools/

mfinkle: should I put these tools under the xulrunner/ dir on stage too?

Comment 3

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

(In reply to comment #2)
> mfinkle: should I put these tools under the xulrunner/ dir on stage too?

I've also thrown them up here:

http://stage.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/mar-generation-tools/

The last step here is for me to throw together a wiki page that describes our current process for creating complete and partial mars using these tools.

Comment 4

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Sorry for being so late to the party here, but I think these tools should live elsewhere on FTP, probably http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/mar or somewhere else close to MozillaBuild. They certainly aren't specific to XULRunner in any way.

Comment 5

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Sorry for being so late to the party here, but I think these tools should live
> elsewhere on FTP, probably
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mozilla/libraries/mar or somewhere else
> close to MozillaBuild. They certainly aren't specific to XULRunner in any way.

Sure, but I think the original impetus for this bug was to allow people developing xulrunner-based apps to make use of these tools.

I'm happy to create the dir you suggest as a symlink too.

Comment 6

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

The wiki docs have been updated:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/UpdateGeneration#What_the_Makefiles_do.2C_or_How_to_make_your_own_updates

(In reply to comment #5)
> I'm happy to create the dir you suggest as a symlink too.

Done.