On Tuesday 2016-05-31 23:59 -0400, Eric Shepherd wrote: > Found myself looking at this page today, which is now labeled as > potentially obsolete due to not having undergone any substantial changes > in many years. Could someone please look it over and let me know if it's > worth keeping or salvageable at least? > > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Modularization_Techniques > > If it's worth keeping, I'll move it to the Mozilla documentation area. > If not, the archival area.
I think it's not salvageable in the sense of being turned into documentation that tells people what they ought to be doing. Almost all of the things it recommends are poor practice today because we have macros or other helpers that do them in much simpler (and in some cases also more efficient) ways. However, I think it's historically quite interesting for people trying to understand how XPCOM works, because it shows the basic pieces of the XPCOM component model and how they can be implemented (but probably shouldn't be anymore) in a nice and simple way, before they were obscured by lots of macros, and by lots of performance and code size optimizations hidden underneath even more macros. So I tend to think it's worth keeping, but with a preface that clearly labels it as historical and no longer good practice, and perhaps with an appendix pointing to the current practices. -David -- 𝄞 L. David Baron http://dbaron.org/ 𝄂 𝄢 Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/ 𝄂 Before I built a wall I'd ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. - Robert Frost, Mending Wall (1914)
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