On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 08:44 -0600, Peter B. Steiger wrote:
> 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?

It's simple enough. Firefox is the browser, Thunderbird is the mail
client, Sunbird is the calendar. That's the official products supported
by the Mozilla team. As someone else said, nVu is the equivalent of the
old HTML editor, but I don't think it's an official Mozilla.org project.

As for Seamonkey, that's a continuation of the old Mozilla suite, by
people who disagreed with the decision to ditch the suite in favour of
the separate Firefox/Thunderbird/etc components. It is *not* the Firefox
browser, nor the Thunderbird mail reader, nor nVu editor. It's simply
the old product kept up to date.

They're all ultimately derived from the old Mozilla suite, which is why
you see bits of legacy stuff in the codebase, e.g the composer directory
on Firefox...

Simon.

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