Pale Moon is missing Inspector about octopus

[Bfgeshka]

Created ebuild revision \w devtools USE flag. Try it out for yourself, I haven't any intention to recompile browser only because of this.

Pretty sure it should work anyway.

[Bfgeshka]

I've got no idea why this part of browser is vital, but there is no need in prebuilt version since for v27 devtools are present as external addon.

https://addons.palemoon.org/extensions/devtools/

[JamesTheAwesomeDude]

@Bfgeshka The devtools addon is deprecated; it's only "for" Pale Moon versions between versions 27.0.0 and 27.0.2; they are currently being maintained primarily in the mainline browser.

Why not at least add them as a USE flag? They are included by default in Pale Moon mainline…

[JamesTheAwesomeDude]

I just tested out the devtools addon, and it is indeed definitely already suffering from its deprecation. It's much, much less polished than the builtin ones.

[Bfgeshka]

AFAIK, devtools addon is not deprecated. And it works for me.

Consider reading ebuilds, you can see that there's no explict devtools disabling.

[JamesTheAwesomeDude]

@Bfgeshka The official Linux build instructions specify that dev tools should be enabled during the configuration phase:

Make sure it contains at least the following for a build that is similar to official builds:

# Please see https://www.palemoon.org/redist.shtml for restrictions when using the official branding.
ac_add_options --enable-official-branding
export MOZILLA_OFFICIAL=1

mk_add_options MOZ_CO_PROJECT=browser
ac_add_options --enable-application=browser

mk_add_options MOZ_OBJDIR=/home/$USER/pmbuild/

ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O2 -msse2 -mfpmath=sse"
ac_add_options --with-pthreads

ac_add_options --disable-installer
ac_add_options --disable-updater

ac_add_options --enable-release
ac_add_options --enable-devtools
ac_add_options --enable-jemalloc
ac_add_options --enable-shared-js

ac_add_options --enable-strip

ac_add_options --x-libraries=/usr/lib

See the ac_add_options --enable-devtools? That needs to be exposed via a USE flag, preferably one by default.

Try the devtools addon, and then try the builtin one to compare, if you don't believe me that his abandoned Firebug fork is deprecated.

[Bfgeshka]

I don't mind adding new USE sometime later, but I insist that addon is not deprecated.

[JamesTheAwesomeDude]

All good; thanks! The builtin devtools' UI is a lot less buggy and unpolished; it's nice to have it on Gentoo.

[JamesTheAwesomeDude]

Though..why is it disabled by default?

[Bfgeshka]

Because it is disabled by default in config.in.