Re: [Epiphany] Footprint work - minimo

[Marco Pesenti Gritti <mpgritti oltrelinux com>]

Il ven, 2003-02-21 alle 03:07, Doug Turner ha scritto:
> Good afternoon,
> 
> I and a few other engineers at Netscape are working on reducing 
> footprint in the mozilla browser.  You may be interested in looking at 
> the "minimo" branch that we are working on.  The aim here is to remove 
> "stuff" that isn't essential to supporting an browser application on a 
> device.
> 
> For example, if your application doesn't require XUL - there is no 
> reason you should have to ship XUL support.  If you don't want to 
> support FTP (as an example), you don't have to ship the protocol handler 
> and related code.  In these cases, you just run configure with a special 
> "mozconfig" file and presto - a custom mozilla.
> 
> New Support in Minimo:
> 
> Disabling xpinstall, js component loading, allowing a simple single 
> profile, and removed obsolete file abstractions.  Currently we are at 
> 8mb in terms of disk footprint at around 15mb in memory footprint.
> 
> The tinderbox for this work is here:
> http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showbuilds.cgi?tree=MiniMo
> 
> As the 1.4a Mozilla Trunk opens up, we hope to land these changes back 
> onto the trunk.
> 
> Note that these are custom mozilla builds and hence your application 
> will not be using a system installation of Mozilla (aka the GRE).
> 
> Your comments welcome.

Very interesting. Is there some documentation about the project ?
I would like to try to build it.

Marco