Build Requirements for Thunderbird have now changed!!

[mscott]

For those of you who build your own version of Thunderbird, please note the new build requirements that effect your .mozconfig file:

1) xmlextras to the list of extension options.

ac_add_options --enable-extensions=wallet,spellcheck,xmlextras

2) You need to add bmp to the list of image decoders:
ac_add_options --enable-image-decoders=icon,png,gif,jpeg,bmp

By including xmlextras as a default component of thunderbird, we make it easier to integrate with the mozilla/calendar extension. I'm also starting to look into RSS feed extension ideas and all of these ideas will require xmlextras. This may also make it easier for extension developers to incorporate RSS feed based extensions into thunderbird.

The BMP decoder is now required in order for mozilla and thunderbird to render the icons we show next to attachment names.

-Scott

P.S. The <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/build.html">build document</a> has been updated appropriately.

[Piel]

For those of you who build your own version of Thunderbird, please note the new build requirements that effect your .mozconfig file:

1) xmlextras to the list of extension options.

ac_add_options --enable-extensions=wallet,spellcheck,xmlextras

2) You need to add bmp to the list of image decoders:
ac_add_options --enable-image-decoders=icon,png,gif,jpeg,bmp

By including xmlextras as a default component of thunderbird, we make it easier to integrate with the mozilla/calendar extension. I'm also starting to look into RSS feed extension ideas and all of these ideas will require xmlextras. This may also make it easier for extension developers to incorporate RSS feed based extensions into thunderbird.

The BMP decoder is now required in order for mozilla and thunderbird to render the icons we show next to attachment names.

-Scott

P.S. The <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/build.html">build document</a> has been updated appropriately.

Does this mean we can hope for a new build in the next couple of days?

[mscott]

Does this mean we can hope for a new build in the next couple of days?

win32 build is coming out tonight. Just haven't had a chance to write up a build summary / release notes yet.

[MozJF]

For those of you who build your own version of Thunderbird, please note the new build requirements that effect your .mozconfig file:

1) xmlextras to the list of extension options.

ac_add_options --enable-extensions=wallet,spellcheck,xmlextras

2) You need to add bmp to the list of image decoders:
ac_add_options --enable-image-decoders=icon,png,gif,jpeg,bmp

By including xmlextras as a default component of thunderbird, we make it easier to integrate with the mozilla/calendar extension. I'm also starting to look into RSS feed extension ideas and all of these ideas will require xmlextras. This may also make it easier for extension developers to incorporate RSS feed based extensions into thunderbird.

The BMP decoder is now required in order for mozilla and thunderbird to render the icons we show next to attachment names.

-Scott

P.S. The <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/build.html">build document</a> has been updated appropriately.

Thanks for the info. I modified my .mozconfig.

Let's hope size will be reduced soon and reduced by 1 or 2 Mb

[deviltje]

I would love to have rss support in my mail & news reader...
I now use an extension in firebird to read the feeds.. But I think
It would be nice to have it firebird with my mailboxes and my newsgroups..
and then check every x minutes if the feed has changed

[mscott]

Thanks for the info. I modified my .mozconfig.

Let's hope size will be reduced soon and reduced by 1 or 2 Mb

I didn't understand this comment. Did your win32 build suddenly jump in size by 2MBs? These changes only added 30K to the zip for me on windows.

[MozJF]

Thanks for the info. I modified my .mozconfig.

Let's hope size will be reduced soon and reduced by 1 or 2 Mb

I didn't understand this comment. Did your win32 build suddenly jump in size by 2MBs? These changes only added 30K to the zip for me on windows.

It was kind of joke. I just hope that TBird will follow the size reduction Firebird followed

And removing one or two megabytes can be possible, isn't it ?

[mscott]

Thanks for the info. I modified my .mozconfig.

Let's hope size will be reduced soon and reduced by 1 or 2 Mb

I didn't understand this comment. Did your win32 build suddenly jump in size by 2MBs? These changes only added 30K to the zip for me on windows.

It was kind of joke. I just hope that TBird will follow the size reduction Firebird followed

And removing one or two megabytes can be possible, isn't it ?

We already did follow the size reduction footprint of firebird. Look at the sizes of the app when we first started (~11-12 MBs zipped).

As it stands now we are in great shape relative to a firebird download size. We are at 7.3 MBs and Firebird is at 6MB.

So only 1.3 MBs off which is pretty darn good considering the size of the mail news libraries.

[MozJF]

[...]
It was kind of joke. I just hope that TBird will follow the size reduction Firebird followed

And removing one or two megabytes can be possible, isn't it ?

We already did follow the size reduction footprint of firebird. Look at the sizes of the app when we first started (~11-12 MBs zipped).

As it stands now we are in great shape relative to a firebird download size. We are at 7.3 MBs and Firebird is at 6MB.

So only 1.3 MBs off which is pretty darn good considering the size of the mail news libraries.

Indeed. But before (or for ?) 0.8, Firebird will not ship comm.jar (around 1.5 Mb). So, winning place should be harder

Anyway, I am happy everytime build size is reduced