On Sunday, June 16, 2019 at 6:44:28 AM UTC-7, Axel Hecht wrote:
> Am 16.06.19 um 12:28 schrieb Paul Schauble:
> > 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 [en-US] is 99% out of date!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?
> >
>
> Nope, you'd want to
>
> hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-esr60/ mozilla
> cd mozilla
> hg co THUNDERBIRD_60_VERBRANCH
> hg clone https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/comm-esr60/ comm
Ok, I'm doing that now.
What checkout do I want for comm-esr60? What version does the automatic
checkout of HEAD get me?
And, for my understanding, since everything is build from
THUNDERBIRD_60_VERBRANCH, what is the difference between 60.1, 60.2, 60.7,
60.7.1, etc?
Thanks,
++PLS
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