As the official xpi only works with mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-bin and not mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird (unless you are running x86 and compiled thunderbird using gcc-3.3) I'd love a Lightning ebuild. If you for some reason can't/won't do that, a sunbird-0.3 (preferably not -bin) ebuild would do.
I am having problems why you say x86_64 is not supported. I just checked and source code is avaliable for download, so every arch that thunderbird is supported on is technically supported.
The problem: Mozilla doesn't distribute x86_64 .xpi binaries, and even then the bug reports that Thunderbird must be built with gcc-3.3 to use it. Therefore Gentoo's source based approach to software management shines once again and an ebuild has been requested.
Yes I just tried to install 0.3 on amd64 but I would need to recompile lightning from source as there is still no binary supplied by mozilla it seems. An ebuild would be wonderful. Raphael
Well at present this is not really fesible ... I say this as it requires all of thunderbird be build at same time ligntning is in order to create the xpi. Yes this suxs but I tried to change it with upstream and they seem to act like it would be too difficult to fix it properly. Sorry guys I had an ebuild ready but without being able to build the xpi it is useless.
(In reply to comment #4) > Well at present this is not really fesible ... I say this as it requires all of > thunderbird be build at same time ligntning is in order to create the xpi. Yes > this suxs but I tried to change it with upstream and they seem to act like it > would be too difficult to fix it properly. Sorry guys I had an ebuild ready but > without being able to build the xpi it is useless. > How about a useflag for Thunderbird? Is this [technically] possible? Not the prettiest solution, but IMHO Lightning will become very important for Thunderbird as it progresses.
(In reply to comment #5) > How about a useflag for Thunderbird? Is this [technically] possible? Not the > prettiest solution, but IMHO Lightning will become very important for > Thunderbird as it progresses. > Well that is not possible either as lightning source is not in the standard tree. I will post an ebuild in a bit that will allow ya to build and just install the extension but does require you build all of thunderbird just to build the xpi.
Created attachment 104548 [details] lightning-0.3 ebuild This is what the ebuild has to look like for now .. this will only install the extension into an already installed thunderbird. Like I said early it is ugly but does work as expected.
Well, it is "ugly" as you say, but after all, the enigmail plugin is built like that! And it has its USE flag in the thunderbird ebuild ;) It always pains me to see it unpacking the thunderbird archive to build the xpi...
I was just informed from upstream our ebuild is pretty much useless at this point in time .. It requires the extension be installed via the user it is busted when installed globally. I have put up a x86_64 xpi that they will be adding to their mirrors as well .. http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/~anarchy/dist/lightning-Linux_x86_64-gcc3.xpi
(In reply to comment #2) > The problem: Mozilla doesn't distribute x86_64 .xpi binaries, and even then the > bug reports that Thunderbird must be built with gcc-3.3 to use it. Therefore > Gentoo's source based approach to software management shines once again and an > ebuild has been requested. > I meant to correct ya on this earlier ... Thunderbird must be built with gcc-3.3 It is only ABI compatible which gentoo is .. hense you will see the naming in the xpi I have put in http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=151296#c9 .. I just do not want anyone to become confused with how upstream works.
Closing as per Anarchy's request: Nothing we can do untill upstream fixes some major issues.
*** Bug 174617 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 171949 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
this was closed due to upstream issues, but mozilla released version 0.5 and 0.7. latest looks much more stable and usable. As we don't have an official release from mozilla the only way on amd64 is compile by sources we have sunbird in portage, which shares almost all the core code. why not lighting as well? I request TB/Mozilla team to reopen it, i'll be happy to test Thank you
forgot: someone managed to have the extension compiled for 64 bit release http://blog.devzero.net/2007/10/lightning-07-for-x8664.html
i could compile it as well: 1) download sources 2) cd mozilla 3) ./configure --with-system-nspr --with-system-nss --enable-default-toolkit=gtk2 --enable-xft --disable-freetype2 --enable-application=mail --enable-extensions=default,lightning 4) inside dist/xpi-stage/ there are lightning-wcap.xpi lightning.xpi can you please reopen and include in portage?
Reopening...
In CVS, please test.
it works great, would be nice to have localization
version 0.8 is out
