This is my next task, don’t you worry! Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN [email protected] || @chrisdavidmills
> On 4 Nov 2014, at 16:01, Kumar Rishav <[email protected]> wrote: > > Great news :) > It will be very helpful now. > @chris : It will be great if instructions to run Gaia get updated on MDN too. > > Thanks to all who worked on this new tool. Now Gaia contributor can resume > their work. > > Cheers > > On 4 Nov 2014 19:48, "Alexandre poirot" <[email protected]> wrote: > Gaia and Gecko developers, > > Mulet builds are finally available: > http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/b2g/nightly/latest-mozilla-central/ > (Look for firefox-* packages) > > Mulet is meant to merge all existing runtimes currently available on desktop > to run Gaia. > It will replace b2g-desktop and the special Firefox nightly mode that is > currently broken. > The Fx OS simulator addon is also going to be based on top of it. > > There is nothing special to do in order to use it. > Just build a gaia profile with make (both DEBUG and non-DEBUG profile work). > and then run it with this profile: > > $ cd ~/gaia > $ make > $ ~/mulet/firefox-bin -profile profile/ > > (So far it doesn't come with a builtin gaia profile, so you have to build and > pass one) > > The main goal is to have a single environment to run Gaia on desktop, > while ensuring we have the most convenient way to work on Gaia. > The main advantage compared to b2g desktop is that you get an easy access > to all devtools when running Gaia. > And the improvement compared to the Firefox nightly support > is that it isn't made of many hacks, while being covered by our Continuous > Integration tools (Treeherder). > Also all APIs that currently work on b2g desktop are meant to work on Mulet. > So please report anything that doesn't work on mulet _whereas it currently > works on b2g desktop_: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Firefox%20OS&component=Runtime > And please cc me (:ochameau) > > Next steps are: > - gather feedback on Mulet stability/usability for gaia development, > - run all CI tests currently running on b2g-desktop: Gaia > unit/ui/integration/linter tests as well as Reftests. (All test suites can > already be run locally against mulet, via RUNTIME env variable) > - ensure that all test suites are green on mulet, > - finally, once previous steps are done, deprecate b2g desktop in favor of > mulet. > > I'll try to give a quick presentation of Mulet during today's gaia meeting: > https://etherpad.mozilla.org/gaia-meeting-notes > > See the wiki page for futher reference: > https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mulet > > ++ > Alex > > _______________________________________________ > dev-gaia mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-gaia > _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
