I'd trade all the clever acronymns and extended metaphors in the world
for a project name that actually says what it does.  Would it kill
people to give their project a meaningful name?

I thought I'd try out the HTML editor with Firefox this time around, so
in the .mozconfig file I included the option to build the composer.  The
build crashed saying it could not find the Makefile
for /mozilla/composer.  Sure enough, that directory is almost completely
empty.

So I went over to mozilla.org to find the composer module to build with
Firefox.  There is no such thing, just a bunch of cute animal names.  Do
I want Thunderbird?  No, any fool can see that Thunderbird means "mail".
What about Sunbird?  Of course, it's a calendar.  Or perhaps
"Seamonkey"?  Yes, it includes an HTML editor... as well as a browser,
email client, calendar, news client, flux capacitor... no way to have
JUST the composer.

OK, rant over.  What I came here to ask was, does anybody know how the
projects fit together?  Is Seamonkey just a superset of the other
mozilla.org projects that includes Firefox, or is it a totally separate
browser product?  If I build Seamonkey will I get current Firefox code
as the browser portion?  If not, can I pull just the composer part of
Seamonkey out of its directory and put it in my Firefox source tree for
a combined build?

And what if I do decide to build Thunderbird?  Can that go in the same
source tree with Firefox and get built at the same time, or is it better
to build them separately?

-- 
Peter B. Steiger
Cheyenne, WY

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