Mike Hommey wrote:
Thunderbird is already linking stuff in libxul from c-c. Why wouldn't it be
possible to move those bits to c-c and do the same?
It's compiling components using the internal API and linking them into
libxul because originally the mailnews components didn't compile against
the external API. (Nowadays it's possible to get
Thunderbird-on-xulrunner mostly working; this is handy for contributors
on underpowered PCs as it takes much less time to rebuild libmail.) If
the "stuff" consists only of XPCOM components then it would make no
difference to Thunderbird whether they were compiled under mailnews or
not. I don't know whether the comm-central build system can link
non-components into libxul.
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