That's a huge milestone. Well done to you lot for swapping out the wheels
while the train is in motion!

On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 12:36 PM, Nicholas Alexander <nalexan...@mozilla.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> tl;dr: the way Fennec builds with moz.build and Gradle has evolved, but
> you should observe no differences in your daily development.
>
> Context: you may have seen Myk's blog post [3] discussing GeckoView and
> some amount of work the platform team (and myself) are doing in this
> direction.  This is part of that work.
>
> Details: thanks to the efforts of Jim Chen (mostly), we now build
> GeckoView before building Fennec -- as a separate JAR under moz.build, and
> as a separate Gradle project under Gradle.  As of Bug 1291363 [1], we now
> publish a (non-functional) geckoview.aar and geckoview_example.apk as part
> of the Bg (Build Gradle) job on Tree Herder (like [2]).
>
> There's no real GeckoView API at this time, but this sets the
> build-packaging-infrastructure framework to develop one, if the platform
> team elects to invest in this.
>
> Again, you should see no changes to your local development.  Please file
> fall-out blocking Bug 1291363 [1] and CC me.
>
> Yours,
> Nick
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1291363
> [2] https://treeherder.mozilla.org/#/jobs?repo=fx-team&;
> selectedJob=11833099
> [3] https://mykzilla.org/2016/09/14/the-once-and-future-geckoview/
>
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