On Friday, June 14, 2019 at 1:53:53 AM UTC-7, Axel Hecht wrote: > On top of what Boris said, the release versions for Thunderbird are > built from ESR 60, so you want to check out from: > > https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr60/, likely > THUNDERBIRD_60_VERBRANCH. > > https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr60/, into mozilla/comm as > documented, which has tags for 60.7, 60.7.1, and further commits, just > pick the version you want there. > > Axel > > Am 14.06.19 um 06:27 schrieb Boris Zbarsky: > > On 6/13/19 7:15 PM, Paul Schauble wrote: > >> Looking at the page "Simple Thunderbird build" under "Get the source", > >> I see this note > >> > >> Warning: The page Getting comm-central Source Code Using Mercurial > >> [en-US] is 99% out of date! Only useful content is working with Github. > >> > >> I'm not sure how to interpret this. > > > > That page (the one at > > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Source_Code/Getting_comm-central>) > > > > has instructions that only work through Thunderbird 59. For Thunderbird > > 60, you want the instructions at > > <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Build_Instructions/Simple_Thunderbird_build> > > > > which are what you're reading. > > > >> Since this note refers to a different page, are the instructions in > >> "Simple Thunderbird Build" correct? > > > > I think they are, but I haven't tried them recently. > > > >> I want to build a Windows 32 debug version of Thunderbird 60.7.0. I > >> suspect that to get the source I don't want to use > >> hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central source/ > >> which would get the most recent. What URL do I want to get that > >> particular version? > > > > That URL would be fine, but then you'd want to actually "hg checkout" > > some specific revision. I can't figure out which one, and there seem to > > be no obvious tags in comm-central for recent Thunderbird versions. > > Hopefully someone who does Thunderbird development more often than I > > will know the answer to this. > > > >> And does cloning that repository just get TBird or does it get all of > >> the Mozilla stuff? > > > > Cloning https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central clones TBird, calendar, > > suite front end. Looks like this ends up at about 200MB on disk. > > > > Cloning https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central clones the Gecko > > rendering engine and the various Firefox front-ends. This is going to > > be around 6GB or so. > > > > -Boris
To be clear, are you saying that I should clone https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr60/ and https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central rather than the repositories mentioned in the "Simple Thunderbird build" page? _______________________________________________ dev-builds mailing list dev-builds@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-builds
