Porting Songbird (how to make a Linux port)

[Florent Thoumie]

On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Eitan Adler<eitanadlerlist at gmail.com> wrote:
> Martin Wilke wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 06:51:56PM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote:
>>> Here is the start of a Makefile for Songbird
>>> http://isis.poly.edu/~eitan/files/Songbird-Makefile-v1
>>
>>> The porter's handbook doesn't have a section on the Linux ports (as far
>>> as I could tell).
>>
>>> I also don't know how I could just mv the files that have to be moved.
>>> There is no compiling involved - just running the program.
>>
>> Gecko Team is working on a nativ port :-)
> True - but we also have linux versions of Firefox and Thunderbird ;)
> Plus we still should have some documentation on making a linux-* port.

The only reason for that is to be able to use linux plugins AFAIK. I'm
not aware of any binary-only linux plugin for songbird.

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Florent Thoumie
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