On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 11:43 AM, J. Ryan Stinnett <jry...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2015 at 8:11 AM, Paul Rouget <p...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>> I guess by moving things to /devtools/, you also want to update the
>> URLs to chrome://devtools/content.
>> So then, we can compile and open the devtools with non-firefox builds
>> (thunderbird, b2g, seamonkey, ...).
>> But if the devtools include browser code, this won't work. For
>> example, we import
>> chrome://browser/content/utilityOverlay.js, which is Firefox only.
>
> The main goal of this work is around making the DevTools codebase more
> approachable for contributors.
>
> We're not explicitly setting out to make reusing the front end easier
> from non-Firefox, but certainly moving out of /browser is one nudge in
> the right direction down that path.
>
> I'm guessing we'll still have some browser dependencies for the
> moment, but I'll take a look at this as I work on the file moves.

That's correct. The use case is, again:

* git clone devtools
* ./nightly
* point devtools source directory to the git clone
* hack on firefox devtools in Nightly, reloading the source as need be

Anything else can wait until later as Ryan suggested.

Paul: are there things you want for graphene?
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