Re: Moving Away from Makefile's

2012-08-21 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 03:56:33PM +1200, Blair McBride wrote: > On 22/08/2012 11:36 a.m., Gregory Szorc wrote: > >I think Lua is perfect for this (it was invented to be a configuration > >language after all). But, I'm not sure it satisfies #1 nor #8. > > +1 for Lua - it seems perfect for this. Fo

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2012-08-21 Thread Lawrence Mandel
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Re: Moving Away from Makefile's

2012-08-21 Thread Blair McBride
On 22/08/2012 11:36 a.m., Gregory Szorc wrote: I think Lua is perfect for this (it was invented to be a configuration language after all). But, I'm not sure it satisfies #1 nor #8. +1 for Lua - it seems perfect for this. For #1, I find it far easier to read (and write) than Gyp, when it comes

Re: Moving Away from Makefile's

2012-08-21 Thread Gregory Szorc
On 8/21/2012 6:12 PM, xunxun wrote: 于 2012/8/22 7:36, Gregory Szorc 写道: Up until now, the focus has been on making Makefile.in's themselves generic and data-driven [1]. We would use pymake's API to parse, load, and extract data from Makefile.in's to construct the build definition. In the long

Re: Moving Away from Makefile's

2012-08-21 Thread xunxun
于 2012/8/22 7:36, Gregory Szorc 写道: tl;dr We're proposing moving away from Makefile's as the sole source of the build system definition. This will lead to faster build times. Bikeshedding^wFeedback on the file format is requested. The existing build system is defined by Makefile.in's scattered

Moving Away from Makefile's

2012-08-21 Thread Gregory Szorc
tl;dr We're proposing moving away from Makefile's as the sole source of the build system definition. This will lead to faster build times. Bikeshedding^wFeedback on the file format is requested. The existing build system is defined by Makefile.in's scattered around the source tree (typically o

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 12-08-21 4:37 PM, Kyle Huey wrote: On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Any program which relies on an event loop is by definition going to suffer from intermittent changes in behavior because of event ordering, etc. This means that some tests will fail intermittently in any

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread Chris Hofmann
On 8/21/12 10:32 AM, L. David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 2012-08-21 09:43 -0700, Asa Dotzler wrote: On 8/21/2012 6:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 20/08/12 18:25, Asa Dotzler wrote: Can you say more about this? Are you saying it's Mozilla's responsibility to put Mozilla resources into solving pr

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread james
ompatible tests in at least some cases, and are upgrading their test infrastructure to run these tests [1]. Microsoft also write testharness.js tests so I guess they must run them too although obviously it is rather harder to tell what's going on there. [1] http://krijnhoetmer.n

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread Kyle Huey
On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > Any program which relies on an event loop is by definition going to suffer > from intermittent changes in behavior because of event ordering, etc. This > means that some tests will fail intermittently in any web browser even if > the browser

Re: LinuxGL widget backend for Mozilla

2012-08-21 Thread romaxa
On Tuesday, 21 August 2012 13:16:38 UTC-7, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > I suggest that the best place to develop this would be on > > mozilla-central, especially since most of the work involved would > > probably not be part of the build of any Tier 1 platform. This means > > that you need to get

Re: LinuxGL widget backend for Mozilla

2012-08-21 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
I suggest that the best place to develop this would be on mozilla-central, especially since most of the work involved would probably not be part of the build of any Tier 1 platform. This means that you need to get reviews for the parts that touch things outside of the widget back-end layer but

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 12-08-18 9:42 AM, ja...@hoppipolla.co.uk wrote: On Friday, 17 August 2012 23:38:22 UTC+2, Justin Dolske wrote: I'm talking about the problem of having a large set of tests with a small percentage that fail intermittently, which is what we have today in m-c. Even if they all magically became

Re: Treestatus replacing tinderbox for tree closure - if you need access but don't yet have it, please let me know!

2012-08-21 Thread Ed Morley
On Friday, 8 June 2012 19:02:30 UTC+1, Ed Morley wrote: > Treestatus (http://treestatus.mozilla.org) will soon be replacing Tinderbox > as the means to open/close and set status messages for all mozilla-* trees, > as well as the Thunderbird parts of the comm-* trees [1]. catlee++ :-D > > This i

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread Asa Dotzler
On 8/21/2012 10:32 AM, L. David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 2012-08-21 09:43 -0700, Asa Dotzler wrote: On 8/21/2012 6:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 20/08/12 18:25, Asa Dotzler wrote: Can you say more about this? Are you saying it's Mozilla's responsibility to put Mozilla resources into solving

Gecko SDK 15.0b5 : Unresolved external symbols

2012-08-21 Thread kushneeraj
Hi All, I got the Gecko SDK 15.0b5 to compile my Firefox plugin. While compiling, I a getting following errors: xpcomglue_s.lib(nsCRTGlue.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp__vfprintf xpcomglue_s.lib(nsCRTGlue.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol __imp___fdopen x

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread L. David Baron
On Tuesday 2012-08-21 09:43 -0700, Asa Dotzler wrote: > On 8/21/2012 6:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: > >On 20/08/12 18:25, Asa Dotzler wrote: > >>Can you say more about this? Are you saying it's Mozilla's > >>responsibility to put Mozilla resources into solving problems for Opera? > >>I'm not sure

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread Asa Dotzler
On 8/21/2012 6:34 AM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 20/08/12 18:25, Asa Dotzler wrote: Can you say more about this? Are you saying it's Mozilla's responsibility to put Mozilla resources into solving problems for Opera? I'm not sure I understand this assertion. I think he's arguing that a belief in

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-21 Thread Gervase Markham
On 20/08/12 18:25, Asa Dotzler wrote: > Can you say more about this? Are you saying it's Mozilla's > responsibility to put Mozilla resources into solving problems for Opera? > I'm not sure I understand this assertion. I think he's arguing that a belief in user choice could well translate into doin