Overview

Following Netscape's decision to publically release the source code for their client product, otherwise known as Mozilla, a number of free software groups have become actively involved in supporting and improving this technology for their own uses. The FreeBSD Mozilla Group seeks to provide a focus for such work in the FreeBSD world, providing centralized resources such as a CVS repository, a mailing list and other tools for collaborative development.

Resources

CVSup

CVSup provides ongoing syncronization with the central Mozilla repository, either for the CVS bits themselves (for those wishing to keep a local repository) or for a "checked out" version, suitable for directly building or editing. Fetch the CVSup binaries from ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/CVSup/ and use a supfile which looks something like this:

*default prefix=/usr/src/mozilla base=/usr/src/mozilla host=mozilla.FreeBSD.org release=cvs delete compress use-rel-suffix tag=.

## Main Source Tree
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anoncvs

Anonymous CVS allows anyone to check things out of the FreeBSD Mozilla repository using the standard cvs(1) commands. Simply set your CVSROOT environment variable to point to:

      anoncvs@mozilla.FreeBSD.org:/mozilla
      

And you can then use cvs(1) for doing read-only operations on the Mozilla CVS repository.

freebsd-mozilla

The FreeBSD-mozilla mailing list is provided for developers and users of the FreeBSD mozilla port to discuss issues relating to building, using and managing the mozilla sources and any FreeBSD-specific changes to them. To subscribe, send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org and say subscribe freebsd-mozilla in the body of your message.

More information

Mozilla.ORG

The Mozilla.org project provides central control over Mozilla for all platforms, not just FreeBSD.

Cyclic Software

Cyclic Software has some good on-line tutorials on CVS