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It is pretty easy to get involved with the development of Ubiquity. Start off by introducing yourself on the irc channel #ubiquity on [[irc.mozilla.org]]. | It is pretty easy to get involved with the development of Ubiquity. Start off by introducing yourself on the irc channel #ubiquity on [[irc.mozilla.org]]. | ||
We use | You will need to have [http://www.python.org|Python] installed, preferably Python 2.5. (If you are on Mac OS X, you have Python already.) We use Python instead of Make for our build script. | ||
We use [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/|Mercurial], called "Hg" for short, for version control. It is very easy to install if you've got Python 2.5 with setuptools. Just type: | |||
easy_install Mercurial | easy_install Mercurial | ||
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Now you are all set to become a pro Ubiquity hacker! | Now you are all set to become a pro Ubiquity hacker! | ||
== Uninstalling Ubiquity == | |||
Just run "python manage.py uninstall", optionally specifying a profile | |||
name/directory if necessary. Alternatively, you can also uninstall | |||
the extension through the normal Firefox addon management UI. | |||
== Building an XPI == | |||
To build an XPI for Ubiquity, just run: | |||
python manage.py build-xpi | |||
This will create an XPI with the name "ubiquity-<version>.xpi", where | |||
"<version>" is taken from the contents of the "em:version" element in the | |||
"ubiquity/install.rdf" file. | |||
= Development = | = Development = | ||