> On Feb 26, 2016, at 4:37 PM, Fabrice Desré <fabr...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> 
> Look at what you need to implement to get the simplest gecko based
> product that builds with --enable-application=my_great_app and compare
> it to the same project as an Electron app. There's no surprise why
> people are not using gecko here. Just having to build a custom gecko for
> N platforms is big drawback. Oh, and you're obviously Tier 100 when you
> do that, so you have to chase gecko's changes, sec fixes etc.
> 
> It's not whether it's doable (especially not whether a gecko engineer
> can do it) but if it's a reasonable tool for others to use. Gecko is not
> one unfortunately.

+1

Do we even have documentation on how to create a *new* application via 
`--enable-application`? Most documentation on MDN that I’ve found only 
describes how to use that flag to select an existing application (e.g. firefox, 
thunderbird).

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