On 7/11/07, Peter B. Steiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.

Sorry, you can't do that. The standalone composer is NVU.

http://www.nvu.com/index.php

It seems like it's in a state of flux, though. The lead developer has
stopped development of nvu and is writing something new from scratch
that's only in cvs, I think.

http://glazman.org/weblog/dotclear/index.php?Nvu

But, there's a fork of the old nvu codebase here:

http://kompozer.net/

> 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.

Wikipedia set me straight.

> 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?

Separate. Well, if you want to checkout from CVS, you can switch
between tag names, but in the end I think it's easier to just keep the
source trees separate. The good news is that with Gecko-1.9 (will be
the base for firefox 3), you will be able to build the backend
standalone as xulrunner. So, then you would just have to build the
frontend for firefox/thunderbird/sunbird/whatever.

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Dan
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