Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau] Reporter
	Description • 11 years ago

In the process of simplifying hacking on gaia, getting rid of command line dependency would ease contributing to gaia and especially on windows.
We target using mostly javascript for the build system in order to support node and firefox as runtime.
As most of the build system currently runs in xpcshell, it is really easy to craft such addon, that take a Gaia folder, build a profile with preferences, settings and apps being preinstalled and then run another firefox instance with a custom gaia build.

	Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau] Reporter
	Comment 1 • 11 years ago

Do you think gaia repo is a good place for this code/addon?

	Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau] Reporter
	Comment 2 • 11 years ago

Here is a build of the addon.
Take a recent nightly,
install the addon,
checkout gaia (you need a branch with settings.js - https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/pull/11486),
in firefox, open "about:gaia",
select the gaia folder,
click on launch!

That will open another firefox instance with a custom profile and automatically open gaia with devtools.

	Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)
	Comment 3 • 11 years ago

Comment on attachment 789020 [details]
Pull request 11487

I think it make sense to merge this tool in Gaia first, and make changes on top of it toward our goal.

Eventually Gaia itself should be split up into repos and we could figure out where our code should go at that time.

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 4 • 11 years ago

steal.

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 5 • 11 years ago

WIP here. I used addons-sdk to get require function for CommonJS pattern.

	Axel Hecht [:Pike]
	Comment 6 • 11 years ago

It'd be great if we could extend this to include localizations, creating the right languages.json, and picking up files from local clones of gaia-l10n.

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 7 • 11 years ago

I'll re-write multilocale.py to javascript :-D

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 8 • 11 years ago

but for localization I'll file another bug because we should have a minimal firefox addon first and finish all work for build system step by step.

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 9 • 11 years ago

it works again on mac ;-)

https://github.com/yurenju/gaia/tree/mod2arg-xpcshell

	Axel Hecht [:Pike]
	Comment 11 • 11 years ago

What are the next steps here? Anxiously waiting...

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 12 • 11 years ago

Axel, There were some bugs for homescreen with this commit but I fixed it yesterday, I'll try to land it this week.

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 13 • 11 years ago

part 1 merged. 

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/af99229719876bf09615209cc6f3f386d02e74e3

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 14 • 11 years ago

create a firefox extension for building gaia. you can follow instructions to use this extension:
    
1. cd <GAIA_DIR>/tools/extensions/gaia-build@gaiamobile.org
2. FIREFOX="<FIREFOX_BIN_PATH>" make run
3. go to tools -> addons and enable gaia-build extension (default is disable)
4. go to url: about:gaia
5. select your gaia dir and click launch gaia

another firefox window will be opened and running gaia.

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 15 • 11 years ago

Merged.

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/6cbd94adaed55cff808503a93943c1cb88b6e266

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 16 • 11 years ago

always got red state on travis-ci, backouted this commit first.

https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/13ca705debed41b19cb170e5820a43ea55096225

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 17 • 11 years ago

seems red state is caused by bug 850430, I'll land this commit if I got green state again.

	Yuren [:yurenju] (AFK ~ Oct. 12) (volunteer mode) Assignee
	Comment 18 • 11 years ago

got green state, merged again.

https://travis-ci.org/mozilla-b2g/gaia/builds/11952005
https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/commit/22fc3257a9dc69e0d468a70f157afeafab0a8e0e