From ADC

abstract is meant to be easy to use. Making it easy to hack is a second mission objective. This objective is half met. Hacking abstract resembles flying, at the moment. It is rather complicated to take off, but great ever since. All is going to be much easier after Mozilla migrates Firefox to use XULRunner. But right now we have what we have.

Since the first alpha, abstract is using Mozilla Build System. As a result, it builds on any platform, that Firefox does. Please see m:Mozilla Build FAQ for list of supported platforms and other details.

Working on abstract includes the following steps:

• Prepare Build Environment

• Build and install XULRunner
  • Get sources
  • Windows
  • Debian
  • Ubuntu
  • RPM based
  • From sources

• Build Abstract and run its tests
  • Get Sources
  • Run Build

• Create and submit patches
  • Choose topic
  • Create solution
  • Share the result