On 5/21/01 4:38 AM, Kristoff Bonne wrote:
> Greetings,
>
>
> I don't know if this question has been asked before. (deja.com does not
> seams to carry this newsgroup).
see news://news.mozilla.org/3A427646.6060606%40netscape.com
> I've been trying both netscape 6.01 and mozilla 0.9 (on Mandrake 7.1/i386).
>
> I seam to get some problem with the browser, but I am quit impressed
> with the mail/news client.
> (Well, IMAP-support does give a 'core-dump' sometimes).
can you start some bugs on these core dumps with some stack traces or talkback
incident ids?
> But, it would be interesting to have a 'stand-alone' version of the
> mail/news client; completely separated from the browser. Now, if the
> browser coredumps for some reason; the mail-client dies too; so it would
> be interested to have some 'barrier' between the two.
right, if they were seperate processes, nav could crash without killing
mail news (and vice versa).
> Also, it would also cut back on the system-requirements when only using
> news.
>
> So, is it possible to 'make' such a version; or do there exist
> pre-compiled version for it!
There's no way to do that right now.
I think the reverse is possible. You can build navigator without mail &
news, using --disable-mailnews or something.
There is no precompiled version of mail&news without navigator.
-Seth
