Some questions on Evergeen (was: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] 226subscribers)

[Shawn Boyette]

On 3/22/07, Don McMorris <don.mcmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> The client runs in XULRunner (although it could technically run in
> Firefox or Mozilla, and it actually did back in the Alpha days ;)).

That's because much like how Firefox was Mozilla without the "suite"
(composer, mailer, etc.), XULRunner is Firefox without the browser.
That is to say, it's the rendering and javascript engines, network
code, and XUL/XBL stuffs.

It's sort of like if someone developed a variant of Emacs that didn't
have all the editing bindings shipped by default, but was just the
Lisp engine and support libraries.

I haven't looked at it in a while, so I don't know how far along they
are, but the eventual goal of the XULRunner project is to add network
autoloading and versioning support, to turn it into a single platform
for an ecosystem of XUL/XBL apps like the Evergreen client and
Songbird and [Your App Here].

-- 
Shawn Boyette
<sboyette at gmail.com>