437059 - add options to mozilla-central client.py for pulling thunderbird/suite from CVS

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

I think the simplest solution for bootstrapping Thunderbird/SeaMonkey onto mozilla-central is just to add options to client.py to allow it to check the appropriate dirs out of CVS. This isn't an ideal long-term solution, but it should at least allow both projects to build against 1.9.1 without a lot of pain.

We will probably stop requiring client.py to build Firefox in bug 417635, but I don't see any reason it can't live on for this purpose.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

I think this can be a useful intermediate solution until Thunderbird/SeaMonkey have an own hg repositorythat probably will pull mozilla-central dynamically.

Esp. given the short time window to get thing that might be helful for our products into 1.9.1 on hg, I think a fast path for switching to trunk in this manner is a good option, decoupling this from building our own hg repo.

Comment 2

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Seems reasonable to me.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

-> WONTFIX in light of the comm-central solution Kairo has come up with.