>  1) When you say "Something capable of building a binary at one point, on
all 
>  3 platforms, at the time of the bounty, would be enough" I'm still a
little 
>  confused..  Are we talking about pyxpcom building on the trunk on a
particular 
>  day or some branch or tag like 1.9b2?  If one was to patch the heck out of
the
>  trunk or some branch to get it to build, and supplied the diffs, would you
>  push those patches and pay the bounty or would you expect the bounty
hunter
>  to push the patches?  

The trunk does not need a "massive" number of patches to make it build, and
I'll commit to checking in any patches needed for the trunk to build
"stand-alone" on any platform, on an ongoing basis.

>  2) I guess this is a question for everybody:  I like the idea of a pyxpcom

>  extension but have only explored this for Firefox..  So what is the
fundamental 
>  difference between a Firefox and Xulrunner extension where FF and
XulRunner are 
>  from the same codebase?

Think of firefox as simply a huge xulrunner based application - itÂ?s a
pre-written app which includes many components.  xulrunner is more of a
skeleton for running such apps.

>  Also, I'm wondering if we built the pyxpcom extension from some branch
like 1.9b2, 
>  what is the likelihood that it would work with an arbitrary nightly
xulrunner 
>  build?  (ie - how isolated is the xpcom/python code from the rest of the
beast?)

"It depends" :)  Once stuff builds on a branch, it should continue to do so
as the branch should be fairly stable, certainly wrt the things pyxpcom
cares about.  The trunk really doesn't fail that often either - if the
compile error Paul referred to was the only error he saw, then it would
appear to remain very close today.  Often trunk failure I see are unrelated
to pyxpcom

[Many hours later after an attempt to check]

As predicted, the trunk itself is defeating me.  I get failure at:

creating toolkit/crashreporter/test/Makefile
Creating .deps
Creating ../../dist/include/crashreporter
make[6]: Entering directory
`/c/src/moz_trunk/mozilla/toolkit/crashreporter/google-breakpad/src/common/w
indows'
: No such file or directory/..
Makefile:51: *** commands commence before first target.  Stop.

I'm retrying with --disable-tests built, but I fear it will not complete
before I have to leave for a long weekend.  I'll catch up again on Monday.

Cheers,

Mark

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