Arrakis wrote: > Greetings, > > We've rewritten xB Browser to version 2.0.0.9/10 and are about to > introduce some new functionality to it. I thought this would be a lovely > time to take a step back and acquiesce to some prior requests for a doc > on how to build xB Browser from scratch. I've got some questions, and > hopefully you've got some opinions and maybe requests of your own. > > 1. Given the somewhat complicated layout mechanisms in Mozilla, would > you be willing to have instructions that say to the effect "Go to > View|Toolbar|Customize and drag button xyz to the toolbar where desired" > or do we demand to see a file-based placement? > > 2. Given the above, you will get users placing the toolbar items or > buttons in slightly different order, or editing a file with an editor > that may not have the same /$r/$n EOL functions, thus we will end up > with different hashes/sizes from one user to the other, despite them > being the same build. Is that acceptable? What is an acceptable > alternative if not? >
I suggest you use an automated build system. Make[0] should do the job. Basically all modern software projects are built with some sort of build system, it's probably a good idea to use something that everyone can acquire and use for free. Regards, Jacob [0] http://www.gnu.org/software/make/
