Subj : Re: A plea to the Open Sourcerors
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Benjamin Smedberg <bsmedberg@covad.net>
Date : Fri Jan 23 2004 08:41 am

Andrew Mayo wrote:

> Can I use this approach and slim down Mozilla considerably? (I could
> live with, say, a 3 meg runtime environment but the full Mozilla is a
> bit much, I think.
> 
> If I could do this, how would I go about determining which components
> I'd need out of Mozilla as a runtime support environment for the
> Javascript engine?

Well... sorta. Most of the components you need live inside XPCOM itself, 
so you can build XPCOM standalone. There is one major problem with this 
approach (reading/writing files is currently implemented by necko, not 
XPCOM). If we fix that (I forget the bug number, but search for an open 
but about file streams), you have everthing you want in a download under 
1M; this includes access to the environment, ability to launch programs, 
access the filesystem, and all that basic sysadmin stuff.

--BDS

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