Rooftop lab

ActionMonkey dwells on the frontier of Mozilla. Its source code lives in a Mercurial repository, not CVS. There is no Tinderbox and no Bonsai. Worse, the usual build instructions don’t quite work in ActionMonkey-land, and until now, just building it has involved a lot of guesswork.

Today, some kind-hearted genius updated the ActionMonkey wiki page with build instructions. The current status of these instructions is “it probably works on Mac OS”. And I want to make it clear exactly what you’re getting if you build ActionMonkey today. It’s just SpiderMonkey with a few Tamarin genes grafted in, but still inactive. It’s very, very early in the game yet.

If life on the frontier is your thing, please take ActionMonkey for a spin. You can really help us by reporting build system bugs—especially on Windows and Linux. If you do report a bug, please assign it to jorendorff.