518886 - Add Fennec (WinMo) l10 nightly repacks to automation

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Armen [:armenzg]]

In bug 501794 it was requested to generate L10n nightly builds for Winmo jointed with L10n Desktop builds for mac and win32.

I have decided to separate the winmo side of that bug since the situation is different.

First of all we generate these two files:
- fennec-1.0a3.en-US.wince-arm.cab
- fennec-1.0a3.en-US.wince-arm.zip
that I believe can be used for the WinMo devices (even though the name says WinCE).

In bug 502933, it is being investigated how to create an .EXE installer instead of the .cab file because they take a long time to install on the devices. Are we going to deprecate the use of cab files for Fennec?

In bug 502844, we are looking into generating L10n cab files.

What is the way that we are going to take?

After all I have said I believe we can't automate anything until there is something clear to automate. Please feel free to correct me if I am wrong.

Comment 1

[Alex Pakhotin (:alexp)]

As for the installer (Bug 502933) - yes, it seems like we are going to replace it with a new EXE installer, which is noticeably smaller and faster. The packaging process is not supposed to change though - "make package" will still work, it will just create *.exe instead of the *.cab.

Comment 2

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Added dependency on localized .cab file

Comment 3

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Putting into the future list since I won't be able to look at it for at least the next 2 weeks. I will grab it if nobody does before I do.

Comment 4

[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.