A platform change has recently modified a long-standing default setting, such that building with the account wizard is now the default, and classic account creation requires a build flag to be set. This is the reverse of how the platform has historically worked. In the past, the HYPE_ICEDOVE define was used to enable the account wizard, and the default was to have classic account creation.
For details on why/how this happened and what you will need to do, see:
https://repo.palemoon.org/MoonchildProd ... ssues/2454
Heads up: Suite applications need to use a new build option.
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athenian200
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Heads up: Suite applications need to use a new build option.
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dbsoft
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Re: Heads up: Suite applications need to use a new build option.
So... does this mean I need to use --enable-classic-account-wizard for Mac and FreeBSD builds?
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athenian200
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Re: Heads up: Suite applications need to use a new build option.
No, I don't use that option with Epyrus. Epyrus doesn't use the classic account Wizard, it uses the newer account wizard, the same one as IceDove-UXP. That "classic" build option disables the newer one and enables the "classic" one used by Suite applications (and Interlink). Up until now, the old account wizard was the default, so I had to use the HYPE_ICEDOVE define in Epyrus to use the new one that was disabled by default. We have to stop using that define now because HYPE_ICEDOVE started being used for more than the account wizard.
That name was a bit confusing and I didn't come up with it. Historically, we used to call only newer account wizard an account wizard, but technically the classic experience is a kind of account wizard too, and the build option was named by someone who wasn't aware we'd been using the terminology that way.
https://repo.palemoon.org/athenian200/epyrus/issues/90
This was the reason for the platform change, the issue I linked above was just the implementation. This issue shouldn't have any impact on IceDove-UXP or Epyrus, but NetFusion and whatever Mail client wicknix is self-building on Unix may be affected and have to start using the new build option.
"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works." -- Steve Ballmer
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in ten." -- Bill Gates
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works." -- Steve Ballmer
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in ten." -- Bill Gates
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dbsoft
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Re: Heads up: Suite applications need to use a new build option.
Yeah sorry, I did read that Issue, but it wasn't clear to me which was which... Thanks. 
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athenian200
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Re: Heads up: Suite applications need to use a new build option.
Yeah, by the old definition --classic-account-wizard would really be --disable-account-wizard. The person who wrote the option saw it differently and saw the old version of the process as being an account wizard too, just a different style.
"Linux makes everything difficult." -- Lyceus Anubite
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works." -- Steve Ballmer
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in ten." -- Bill Gates
"Linux is a cancer that attaches itself in an intellectual property sense to everything it touches. That's the way that the license works." -- Steve Ballmer
"We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in ten." -- Bill Gates