Thunderbird exercises

Last updated on 2013-01-13 18:49 UTC

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I’ve started playing with Thunderbird .
I’ll try to put my experiments in the form of exercises for two reasons:

• avoid to rehash the existing documentation;
• force me to think about what I’m doing, without following instructions literally.

So here we go!

1. compile the development version of Thunderbird under OS X 10.7 (done)
2. compile the development version of Thunderbird under Fedora 17 (done)
3. compile the development version of Thunderbird under Windows (done)
4. compile Thunderbird 13.0.1
   • it is better done from tarball, but can be done from comm-release?
5. configure parallel build of Thunderbird (e.g. 4 threads for dual core) (done on OS X)
6. use pymake under Windows
7. improve compilation times
   1. disable tests
   2. use ccache
   3. understand incremental build
8. follow IRC channel (possibly with Thunderbird Daily :-) )
9. replicate Mozilla build infrastructure
   1. BuildBot
   2. multiple architecture
   3. Tinderboxpushlog

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