On 3/15/2013 2:33 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
I /think/ our current spaghetti configuration is a historical artifact
from using Makefile.in's to define the build config combined with the
complexity required to do things right.
Yes, I believe you are mostly correct.
With moz.build files, we now have a mechanism to facilitate
decentralized declaration of configuration and metadata. For example,
instead of defining all preferences in
/modules/libpref/src/init/all.js, we could have multiple prefs files
each declared through multiple moz.build files. moz.build tree
traversal would discover all relevant prefs files and the build code
in /modules/libpref would simply concatenate that set of files
together. No action outside of your module would be required!
Note that we already started doing this using makefile-fu, see
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/modules/libpref/src/Makefile.in#44
We should definitely continue.
*Also* note that we actually have two different files:
"all.js" is the defaults for the Mozilla platform, including
Tbird/Seamonkey and all XULRunner apps.
"firefox.js" is where Firefox-specific prefs and overrides typically
should live.
--BDS
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