intertwingly

Phil Ringnalda decided to copy me on the Live Bookmarks should support Atom 1.0 bug report.  This lead to my developing and testing a patch.

The process was fairly straightforward.

• cvs checkout
• create .mozconfig by copying and pasting the Firefox Optimized (Static) example
• repeat make -f client.mk build, installing the development library found missing each cycle:
  • sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-dev
  • sudo apt-get install libidl-dev
  • sudo apt-get install libxt-dev
• killall firefox-bin
• fb-opt-static/dist/bin/firefox

Subsequent builds can be done simply by running make in the fb-opt-static directory.

In many ways, developing again in C++ was as comfortable as putting on an old pair of shoes.  The most painful thing was having to once again get used to a traditional edit-compile-debug cycle as opposed to the :w-refresh that I generally use these days.  This was made extra painful by the need to bring down firefox between tests, as that tended to disrupt my diversions.

Hmmm, I see a EntityToUnicode method.  That might come in handy...