Comments on: Komodo Edit is based on XUL? http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/03/14/komodo-edit-is-based-on-xul/ Gen Kanai's Mozilla weblog Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:29:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Erwan http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/03/14/komodo-edit-is-based-on-xul/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Erwan Thu, 15 Mar 2007 17:10:34 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/03/14/komodo-edit-is-based-on-xul/#comment-126 Yes, Komodo is basically XUL on the front-end, and Python XPCOM components in the back-end. Activestate is actually the company that started PyXPCOM: http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/PyXPCOM <i>PyXPCOM was initially developed by ActiveState Tool Corporation, and came out of their Komodo project. Current releases are now integrated with the Mozilla build system.</i> I'm not sure whether they use XULRunner or some hacked codebase of Firefox, however. I think Komodo is older than XULRunner. Yes, Komodo is basically XUL on the front-end, and Python XPCOM components in the back-end.

Activestate is actually the company that started PyXPCOM:
http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/PyXPCOM
PyXPCOM was initially developed by ActiveState Tool Corporation, and came out of their Komodo project. Current releases are now integrated with the Mozilla build system.

I’m not sure whether they use XULRunner or some hacked codebase of Firefox, however. I think Komodo is older than XULRunner.

]]> By: rabbit http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/03/14/komodo-edit-is-based-on-xul/comment-page-1/#comment-119 rabbit Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:19:05 +0000 http://blog.mozilla.com/gen/2007/03/14/komodo-edit-is-based-on-xul/#comment-119 ActiveState have based their Komodo product (not only Edit, which is quite new, but also the entire IDE) on Mozilla technologies for many, many years. The guy working on Python support for Gecko was working at ActiveState before, they were (afaik) the first ones to use Python with XPCOM, and they released the pyxpcom project many years ago, and I believe they still host the mailing list for it. If you look in the mozilla.org bugzilla, there are patches to some old bugs contributed by ActiveState that still have not been checked in (they're probably outdated by now). ActiveState have based their Komodo product (not only Edit, which is quite new, but also the entire IDE) on Mozilla technologies for many, many years.

The guy working on Python support for Gecko was working at ActiveState before, they were (afaik) the first ones to use Python with XPCOM, and they released the pyxpcom project many years ago, and I believe they still host the mailing list for it.

If you look in the mozilla.org bugzilla, there are patches to some old bugs contributed by ActiveState that still have not been checked in (they’re probably outdated by now).

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