Add Source Server Support for Mercurial
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Add Source Server Support for Mercurial
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Previously we added source indexing to release builds using CVS as a backend for pulling source files. Since then, Mozilla has moved to Mercurial from CVS. This project will add support so that Mercurial can be used too. See bug# 440001.
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0.1 Release
* Set up existing source server to see how it works(will download pdb's off mozilla server)
* Set up localhost server
* Build firefox and create pdb files (symbols), host them on local server
* Insert my own data block into one of the mozilla pdb files (will use xul.pdb)
* Get xul.pdb to grab source files off of hgweb instead of cvs repo
October 13, 2008 - Got the current source server working with help from ted and lblakk. Doing review of symbolstore.py code as well as learning more about the python language.
October 18, 2008 - 0.1 Released! For instructions, see this page. See my blog entry for thoughts and observations.
0.2 Release
* Learn more about the Python language
* Learn about how symbolstore.py works
* Hack symbolstore.py to index the pdb files
* Serve the pdb files and make sure they successfully retrieve source code from hgweb
November 12, 2008 - First 3 steps completed. Symbolstore.py is able to index pdb files with Mercurial source file locations. See my blog entry for more details.
November 14, 2008 - 0.2 has been completed. See Bug 440001 for my patch
0.3 Release
* Make changes to 0.2 as per Ted's review comments
* Get patch accepted into source tree(?)
December 1, 2008 - I've submitted a new patch to Bug 440001 with changes as per Ted's comments *Crosses fingers*.
December 17, 2008 - Submitted 0.3 release patch to Bug 440001 with changes as per Ted's comments