Portable DXR

Name of Project

Portable Dehydra Cross Referene (PDXR)

Description

This project aims to turn the DXR into an extension that can be installed in Firefox or distributed as a XUL/Prism application. This will allow developers with limited or no internet connection to access it offline. The extension will also provide a low-bandwidth solution for pushing updates to the end-user.

Leaders

James Boston

Samer Ziadeh

Jerry Pau

Details

Technical Overview

Business Rules

• Must not sell project for profit
• Commit to lowest file size bandwidth

Source

• Backend: Perl
• Database: SQLite
• Interface: XUL

Features

• Running server side Mozilla code on the local machine. The extension will have an embedded server that will handle the server-side scripting.
• Notify the user that their database may be out-of-date 30 days after last update.
• Option to allow compression of data download.

Users

• Developers with limited or slow internet connection

Related Projects

• Mozilla Developer Resource Kit: This is the over-arching project of which the PDXR is but one piece.
• Creating an MDRK spin: This is how this project will eventually be distributed.
• Create a local mxr: It is hoped that by solving the more difficult problem of packaging the dxr, the problem of packaging other materials such as an mxr or developer documentation will also be solved.

Meetings (Chronological)

Sept 19, 2008: (coming soon)

Sept 26, 2008: Discussion with David Humphrey about project scope.

Oct 2, 2008: Discussion with David Humphrey about technical details of DXR.

Oct 3, 2008: (coming soon)

Oct 8, 2008: Team meeting to discuss Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)

Oct 16, 2008: Team meeting to discuss technical details of project [Diagram 1] Diagram 2

News and updates

Team Blogs

James Boston: All relevant posts are tagged 'dxr'.

Samer Ziadeh