На вики SeaMonkey появилась страничка по suiterunner.
http://wiki.mozilla.org/SeaMonkey:suiterunner
Добровольцы могли бы попрактиковаться в переводе:
Description
"suiterunner" is an internal code-name for the future version of SeaMonkey based on the "new toolkit", i.e. the same backend code already used by Firefox, Sunbird and for the most part also Thunderbird. The name is intentionally derived from "XULRunner", as the long-term goal of this project is to make SeaMonkey a XULRunner-based application.
Important changes
Compared to xpfe-based "conventional" SeaMonkey (1.0.x and 1.1.x), suiterunner will feature some quite important changes:
* Incorporation of the same Add-On Management as Firefox, including uninstalling Add-Ons, automatic extension updates, etc.
* Making Firefox and Thunderbird extensions compatible with suiterunner is easier than with "conventional" SeaMonkey (not all will work out-of-the-box though)
* Profiles will be kept in a new directory, old profiles will need to be migrated (addition of a profile migrator opens doors to enable easier settings importing from other apps though)
* New Windows installer will be based on NSIS, just like current Firefox installer
Why are we doing this?
Some of this has already been touched on above:
* Using toolkit means we share more core files with Firefox, Sunbird, Thunderbird etc, this means we benefit from their fixes to the core code, and they benefit from ours.
* It will be easier for extensions that work with Firefox/Thunderbird to be compatible with SeaMonkey.
Current development
Summary
For the moment, building SeaMonkey trunk in the "suiterunner" configuration is working on all platforms, but it currently ties some parts of xpfe and toolkit together in a temporary mix, still excluding some parts of toolkit from the build that we haven't yet figured out how to include without causing incompatibilities. Look for comments like "# XXX Suite doesn't want these just yet" in toolkit build files.
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 22:58:32 +0100
From: Robert Kaiser <kairo@kairo.at>
Subject: Re: suiterunner update 12
To: dev-apps-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.orgI'm posting this here from a current suiterunner build (yay!) - I have
successfully installed and used a spellcheck dictionary (German-Austria)
extension from AMO in this build, even built in Lightning via the
patch in bug 313822 and entered an event for today ("suiterunner
testing")...
Oh yes, I've also helped to debug the tabbrowser patch from bug 350221
in Andrew's latest, mostly-working version.All in all, this is beginning to turn from an unusable testing place
with lots of broken stuff into a mostly working, backend-wise more
modern testing version of SeaMonkey.
Still, there's a lot to do still, but we're nearing a stage where one or
the other developer might be able to start eating dogfood ;-)Robert Kaiser
Уже добрались до более-менее работоспособной сборки.
подожду, пока tabbrowser пофиксят, тогда посмотрю на неё
Hi,
I've done a talk about current and future SeaMonkey development, including suiterunner, yesterday at the FOSDEM conference.
If anyone's interested in the slides I used there, you can find them online at http://kairo.mozdev.org/slides/fosdem2007/
07-05-30
SUITERUNNER has landed. - MozillaZine Forums
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=553212
Posted: 29 May 2007 08:28 pm
Philip Chee
The MOZ_XUL_SWITCH has been thrown. SuiteRunner has landed on the trunk and the tinderboxen are now cycling as I speak, er type. XPFE is dead, long live SuiteRunner!
All nightly builds from this point will be suiterunner builds, and are labelled as 2.0a1pre.
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/
Posted: 30 May 2007 12:29 am
Hendikins
The fact of the matter is, this is a major change, and of course some things are going to be different or broken. This is why it happens in the alpha stage of development. By the time it gets to release stage it will be in much better shape than the current XPFE builds are in.
If you are in a position that means you can't handle the changes, trunk builds aren't the best thing for you to be using. I'm happily using Suiterunner (and have done for a while), and I know it isn't up to the same level of quality as XPFE SeaMonkey is right now, but that is the risk you take using the latest development code.
Posted: 30 May 2007 02:34 am
RDaneel
For the adventurous
types, there are now both installer and zip packages on the Mozilla FTP site (apparently 2007052914 trunk builds)...
Note that the installer packages are now considerably smaller than with previous trunk Windows builds - I would assume this is because of using the NSIS installer with "lzma" option, or maybe it is just "bzip2" - either one would beat the pants off of gzip-style compression.
Posted: 30 May 2007 03:19 am
Hendikins
Suiterunner is basically at dogfood stage (ie: usable for developers/testers)
Posted: 30 May 2007 07:04 am
RDaneel
Well, "2.0a1pre" is what SuiteRunner should say - and the trunk *is* SuiteRunner now as of this morning (Pacific), so as long as you grabbed the correct branch/tag/label (or whatever CVS calls it), you have it
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/seamonkey/nightly/2007-05-30-02-trunk/
seamonkey-2.0a1pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe 30-May-2007 03:56 8.5M
seamonkey-2.0a1pre.en-US.win32.zip 30-May-2007 03:58 12M
Странно, что инсталлятор весит меньше архива.
vk
Странно, что инсталлятор весит меньше архива.
См выше
Note that the installer packages are now considerably smaller than with previous trunk Windows builds - I would assume this is because of using the NSIS installer with "lzma" option, or maybe it is just "bzip2" - either one would beat the pants off of gzip-style compression.
Если кому интересно, я сегодня собрал русскую версию SeaMonkey 2.0a1 для Windows. Выложил у себя, кому не жалко трафика может посмотреть.
seamonkey-2.0a1pre.ru.win32.installer.exe
seamonkey-2.0a1pre.ru.win32.zip
Сразу предупреждаю, что менеджер загрузок глючит (жёлтое окно с красными буквами). Остальное выглядит более менее нормально и по русски (кроме DOM Inspector, Venkman, Chatzilla и справки) 
Наверное, по теме сообщение - о ближайших перспективах разработки Фондом Мозиллы зулраннера и вообще.
mitchell's blog: XUL and XULRunner investment
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/mitchell/archives/2007/05/xul_and_xulrunner_investment.html