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Patch Maker -- Mozilla Hacking & Patching Made

Posted by Hemos on from the tweaking-it-out dept.

A reader writes: " Mozillaquest.com has an article about Patch Maker which is a new Perl script that let's you hack the Mozilla UI using JS, CSS, and XUL. You do not have to download or compile the source code or pull CVS. It makes writing and submitting Mozilla UI patches easier."

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  1. WILL YOU SLASHDOT GUYS LEARN??? by Hitokage_Nishino · · Score: 5, Informative

    Stop posting stuff from mozillaquest.com!

    Even if the stuff about scripting is true, mozillaquest exists solely to bash the efforts of those who spend their time working on the mozilla project. Don't vindicate that troll who runs it.

  2. Thoughts on MozillaQuest by XBL · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now, even though in the article Mike says that the reason for this "toy" is to help fix the bugs that are "raging out of control", at least he makes the article respectible, and professional.

    Mike is a very experienced writer who will undoubtedly move on to higher journalism, like maybe ZDNet. Heck, ZDNet might even turn MozillaQuest into a full-blown print magazine.

    Just remember folks, in a couple years, Mike Angelo will have gone places you have never dreamed. Even though people call the stuff he writes now "crap", I believe in him.

  3. I wrote this software by Gerv · · Score: 5, Informative

    I am the author of Patch Maker. Any questions about it may be directed to me :-)

    Gerv

  4. Re:Just Incase some Slashdotting Occurs... by Gerv · · Score: 5, Informative

    The impetus for creating Patch Maker seems to lie in the fact that Mozilla bugs are raging out of control.

    In fact, the impetus for creating Patch Maker was to allow more people to contribute to Mozilla. Many UI designers are not able to manage the intricacies of our build process; many people do not want to purchase Code Warrior (on Mac) or MSVC++ 6 (on Windows) and are unable, for one reason or another, to install Linux. Many people do not have the bandwidth to continually download and update the CVS tree - even downloading a nightly is a major event which must happen at cheap telephone times.

    This software is for all of these people. For the first time, you can make a significant code contribution to a large open source project without the complexities of compiling.

    Note: Patch Maker is still in development; I would appreciate help porting it to Mac especially, and debugging it on Windows.

    Gerv

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    gerv@mozilla.org, author of Patch Maker