Re: Venkman planning for Gecko 1.9

Any interest in an alternative: extending Firebug to XUL? I have made 
some progress in adapting Firebug to debug Firefox extensions and to 
have it run on FF3. Most of the needed changes for extensions will also 
apply to XUL apps; the only major difference is the start-up logic.

At this point there might be more Firebug expertise than Venkman 
expertise and considerably more users; rather than bitrotted, Firebug is 
arguably better positioned to deal with new issues like css and dynamic 
code.

John.


Alex Vincent wrote:
> Over the last couple years, the Mozilla code base has evolved 
> significantly on the trunk. Unfortunately, development on the JavaScript 
> Debugger has not kept pace - the code has "bitrotted" significantly, and 
> introduced significant bugs.
> 
> This is a serious problem. It's equally serious that no one is hacking 
> on it. I've found it to be a very useful tool for working on chrome 
> code, and XULRunner apps would benefit from having a debugger handy.
> 
> So here's what I want to do. I want to schedule a weekend meeting for 2 
> pm PDT Saturday [1] at #venkman on moznet [2]. The goal, as I see it, is 
> to plan fixing Venkman so it is usable on the XULRunner 1.9 platform. 
> (Getting it working on Firefox 3 would be a nice thing, too.) I want to 
> see who's willing to contribute hours (weeks, more likely) of coding 
> and/or reviewing to this goal. In particular, I'm worried about trying 
> to find out whatever API changes are needed in Venkman itself (not what 
> API Venkman has to call) and getting them in before 1.9 branches.
> 
> Watch my weblog [3] for more details; I'll write up a draft plan for the 
> meeting, so we have some things to think about.
> 
> [1] 
> http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?year=2007&month=9&day=1&hour=22&min=0&sec=0 
> 
> [2] irc://irc.mozilla.org/#venkman
> [3] http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/weirdal/
> 
> Alex Vincent