SeaMonkey/StatusMeetings/2024-08-18: Difference between revisions

** Native arm support for macOS and Windows is looked into for a later date.

* We plan to update builders with a future 2.53.x release soon.

** '''ewong''' has set up a Rocky 8 and Server 2019 builder.

*** Fixing the macOS build symbols issue, later compiler support and fixing the native macOS build can now be tackled.

*** EOL for 2012 R2 is 2023 but has been extended in Azure.

** We might switch to dedicated builders later because of cost savings and better performance.

** Mozbuild 4.x is currently broken for building 2.53.x because of msys2.

* Mozilla l10n moved to github.

** Our TB friends will move comm-l10n to github and not take suite l10n with it.

** gitlab source is used for releases and holding the patches queues only.

* We might need our own add-on site later.

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* We will use Rust 1.73.0 for all or builds for the forseeable future.

** Rust 1.74 dropped support for macOS 10.11 which we still support.

** If you want to build with Rust 1.78 or higher you need the patch in {{Bug|1896958}} to remove the packed_simd crate.

* 2.53.17b1 and up no longer need Python 2 for building. There is still some breakage in test code and other areas because of this.

** The site is incompatible with SeaMonkey up to 2.53.17.1 so you need a different browser for this.

* Compiler support is up to date.

*** clang 15 and higher is currently not supported with macOS builds if you enable crash reporting.

*** macOS sdk 13 or higher can currently not be used. The binary will not start because of some linkage issue if you do.

** macOS arm builds are still not possible amd would need to be notarized which means buying an Apple developer certificate at least.

** Support for clang 6 will be removed. The new regexp parser needs full c++17 support. Currently we worked around it but while this may work with clang 5 and 6 it is basically untested.

** Mozilla skipped clang 10 support because of unspecified problems and did go straight to clang 11 from 9. We will not support clang 10 either. It can be used but is unsupported by us. gcc 9 and up did not get much/any testing so ymmv.

* Native macOS builds are broken and need fixes which would break building on the CentOS 7 builder.

* Current Firefox and Thunderbird only support macOS 10.14 or higher. We support macOS version 10.11 or higher.

* Cross-Reference sources are available at [http://xr.thereisonlyxul.org/seamonkey-2.53/ SeaMonkey 2.53 current].

* enable-elfhack does not work with clang and lld as linker under Linux.

** Windows server 2008 R2 and later are also supported.

** Running under Windows 8 or Server 2012 (original not R2) is not being tested by us.

* The l10n master branches have been updated on heptapot and gitlab.

** Unlike the 2.53 comm and mozilla repros we do not need to do backparts and can always update to the latest translations and just tag releases.

** '''frg''' tries to add support for later javascript syntax features in a separate wip patch queue. Progressing nicely and end of 67a1 now.

** Builds from this branch are not very usable right now because the preliminary support for optional chaining and regexp needed to be removed for a full rebase later.

* If building fails because of a missing wasi-sysroot your need to add "ac_add_options --without-wasm-sandboxed-libraries" in the mozconfig.

** You can also download the wasi-sysroot from [https://github.com/WebAssembly/wasi-sdk/releases/ wasi-sysroot] manually.

* l10n support for comm-central has moved to [https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/comm-l10n comm-l10n].

* The l10n strings for Thunderbird and SeaMonkey are now in the [https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/comm-l10n comm-l10n] repo.