Re: jsdIDebuggerService crashing FF 2.0

John Bandhauer wrote:


John and James, I appreciate your information, very helpful.

> 
> I'd be more impressed by *active* mozilla developers if *someone* went 
> to the trouble of filing a bug on JSD (citing the info I gave 
> previously) so that this bug perhaps gets fixed one day.

Mozilla is --like all large systems -- complex and inconsistently 
documented. And it is but one part of the systems people work on.  I 
think this gives even dedicated folks pause: is my problem a bug? RFTM? 
Working as designed? Very difficult to say in many cases.  And sometimes 
developers on large systems don't take kindly to inaccurate bug reports, 
  scaring off some contributors (I don't know about Mozilla; I don't 
know enough to report bugs on it).

Mozilla has an additional handicap: it has a monolithic cross-platform 
build system with many dependencies.  I've built a lot of linux apps and 
Java apps to debug, but Mozilla is just out of reach in terms of time 
and energy.  Even tools like xpidl are only available through extensive 
work.  Of course I realize that Mozilla also solves many important 
problems by accepting this build system, but I just want explain why I 
can't be impressive ;-).

John.