On 11/13/2015 08:14 AM, Adam Farden wrote:
> MDN currently states that when building Firefox OS the webapps are on
> the userdata partition. For a long time I've been building
> with B2G_SYSTEM_APPS=1 because I have large system partitions.
>
> What is the purpose of having all webapps on userdata partition? Was it
> necessary for old devices with small partitions, but is now generally
> obsolete due to advances in storage size over the years?
Old devices didn't have enough space on the system partition to hold all
the apps in eng mode (ie. all the testing apps). I don't think this is
the case anymore for any device we care about.
> If it's something obsolete then I suggest we switch the logic so that
> everything is on system partition as the default, older devices can
> build with B2G_USERDATA_APPS=1
>
> If there's still need for userdata webapps as the default I'd like to at
> least update MDN to explain why.
I'm not opposed to changing that, but I'm surprised this is not the
default for non engineering builds. I kind of remember that we changed
that a while ago.
Fabrice
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Fabrice Desré
b2g team
Mozilla Corporation
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