677922 - Package pyxpidl in the SDK

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

I assume if we dump all the scripts in the same directory things should just work without pythonpath magic?

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

xpt.py will be part of this, right? Several people have asked for that since we're not packaging the xpt_link binary any more.

Comment 2

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

Yes, without it the typelib generator would fail.

I think we should probably throw in some wrappers that reimplement the old options behavior for xpidl/xpt_link etc.

Comment 3

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

Attachment: Patch

I decided not to throw in wrappers for the old arguments.

Comment 4

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/build-system/rev/38cdd84efa53

Comment 5

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/38cdd84efa53

Comment 6

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

What needs to be documented here, exactly? The build system is scary black magic to me in many respects. :)

Comment 7

[Eric Shepherd [:sheppy]]

Documented:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPIDL/pyxpidl

Documentation revised:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPIDL
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPIDL/xpidl

Mentioned on Firefox 9 for developers.