I just found https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1347507: "Stuff we can remove when XPCOM extensions are no longer supported". A number of the blocking bugs are for removing XPIDL interfaces. If you know of other things that can be removed, please add them as blocking bugs.
Nick On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 10:40 AM, Nicholas Nethercote < n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > What must be considered when changing an XPIDL interface in a .idl file? > As far > as I know, it's the following. > > (1) Update browser C++ code that uses the interface. This is easy because > the > compiler will tell you the parts that need changing. > > (2) Update browser JS code that uses the interface. This is harder because > it > requires using grep or a similar tool to find all the occurrences. But it's > usually not too bad. > > (3) Do extensions use it? If so, changing it probably isn't possible. This > can > be imperfectly determined by searching through addons/ in DXR. > > (4) Does Thunderbird use it? This is no longer a hard constraint, but is > something to consider. > > Once Firefox 57 disallows all extensions other than Web Extension, I think > (3) will > no longer be relevant. In which case, once 57 is under development (August > ~7th) > it will be *much* easier to change XPIDL interfaces. > > (Although, if DevTools are moved its their own repository, that repo will > have to be > checked as well?) > > Is all that correct? Have I missed anything? Thanks. > > Nick > > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
