User:Standard8

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Who Am I?

Mark Banner, known as Standard8 on irc.mozilla.org. My homepage is at Standard8.

What I do

In recent months I've been mainly helping SeaMonkey:Home_Page migrate to toolkit (SeaMonkey:Toolkit_Transition).

I normally mainly work on the MailNews:Address_Book supporting SeaMonkey and Thunderbird.

Thoughts in Progress

package-compare notes

Expansions not taken account of e.g. get something like:

-bin/chrome/icons/default/*.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default16.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default22.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default24.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default256.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default32.png
+bin/chrome/icons/default/default48.png

These items are not packaged even though they are generated:
- common files (adjust for .exe/.dll/.so etc as needed):
  - bin/codesighs
  - bin/maptsvdifftool
  - bin/nm2tsv
    - Used for codesighs tool. Not required in shipped lib.
  - bin/js
    - js command line, not required
  - bin/mangle
  - bin/regxpcom
  - bin/shlibsign
  - bin/xpidl
  - bin/xpt_dump
  - bin/xpt_link
    - Included in NO_PKG_FILES
  - bin/nsinstall
    - Generated for installing files.
  - bin/nspr-config
    - Result of running nspr, not required.
  - bin/dependentlibs.list
    - ???? Seems to be some confusion as to if this is packaged or not (FF 3.0 & 3.6 do, but 3.5 does not...).

- Linux / 1.9.2
  - bin/plugins/libnullplugin.so
    - ????
  - bin/plugins/libunixprintplugin.so
    - ????
- Mac / 1.9.2
  - Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/components/oji.xpt
    - ????
  - Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/DefaultPlugin.plugin/
  - Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/JavaEmbeddingPlugin.bundle/
  - Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/MRJPlugin.plugin/
    - ????
  - Lanikai.app/Contents/MacOS/run-mozilla.sh
    - AFAIK this isn't required.
- Windows / 1.9.2
  - bin/IA2Marshal.dll
  - bin/plugins/npnul32.dll

Setting up tests for crash-handling

Test Setup
- Use checkForCrashes from automationutils.py to check for crashes post-running the test/app
- Ensure mozconfigs have
  - export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1
Buildbot setup
- Ensure buildbot specifies the MINIDUMP_STACKWALK environment variable.
- Ensure buildbot specifies MOZ_CRASHREPORTER_NO_REPORT=1
- May wish to ensure run step has haltOnFailure=True, warnOnFailure=True, flunkOnFailure = False.

Misc notes:
- Using the unittest error parser for tinderbox helps processing.

See bug 522115 for an example.

Misc Notes

Resource Forks

Open Safari, go to a website, then drag the url to your desktop. You'll get a file named like this: “site title.webloc”. • Double click the file will open the website in a default browser. • Dragging the file to Safari or Firefox will also open the url. The “webloc” file is a binary file. The file also contains resource fork.