Re: icecat-doc v0.03 available

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi Thien-Thi,

thanks for your job!

Have you checked that you have covered any topic present in the
README.ICECAT file?  There is not need for both and icecat.texi will
replace it.


I have only few comments:

> @quotation
> Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
> under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2

Please use 1.3.


> Gnuzilla is the GNU version of the Mozilla suite, and GNU IceCat is the
> GNU address@hidden introduction is gratefully adapted from
> @url{http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/}, written by Karl Berry.}
> of the Firefox browser.  Its main advantage is an ethical
> one: it is entirely free software.  While the source code from the
> Mozilla project is free software, the binaries that they release include
> additional non-free software.  Also, they distribute and recommend
> non-free software as plug-ins.

This is not true anymore and the web page was changed accordingly:

  "While the principal source code from the Mozilla project is free
  software, they distribute and recommend non-free software as plug-ins
  and addons."


> @example
> $ v=$(sed 's/-.*//' icecat/browser/config/version.txt)
> $ echo $v
> 3.6
> @end example

Actually there is no need to filter the version number as we are
following the Firefox version used by Icecat, it can be just:

read v < icecat/browser/config/version.txt



> First, we hardlink the (non-subversion) files from @file{icecat/}
> [??? and @file{privacy_ext/} ???]
> to @file{mozilla/} with the @samp{find} and @samp{ln} commands:

privacy_ext files are not needed to build Icecat.  It is an independent
addon.


> Note that this step needs to be done after changing files under
> @file{icecat/} [??? or @file{privacy_ext/} ???],
> whether the change was done by @samp{svn update} or by local editing.

Like above.



Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden> writes:

> Feedback welcome!  I particularly need help documenting the privacy
> extensions: where to unpack it, how to configure it, etc.

the privacy_ext.xpi file can be packed using this command:

cd icecat/trunk/privacy_ext; svn list -R | while read f; do test -f $f \
   && echo $f; done | xargs zip privacy_ext.xpi

Cheers,
Giuseppe