Re: Intent to implement: Prerendering API

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:16 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Ilya Grigorik > wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > > Do you really think that Google would be able to morph a google > calendar page into the google search result page? >

FYI: Emergency try reset in process - https://bugzil.la/1053558

tl;dr: try repo is being reset - read on for ways to access old push data Today we experienced another hg.m.o event that is not recovering similar to past events. After 2-1/2 hours with no signs of recovery, and with the recommendation of the sheriffs, we are resetting the try repo now. While you

Re: Intent to implement: Prerendering API

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:24 PM, Ilya Grigorik wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: >> >> On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Ilya Grigorik >> wrote: >> > Whereas for (b) you can also do it in place by prefetching the template >> > and then issuing a data request for rele

Re: Non-backward compatible changes to JS 'let' semantics

On 8/13/14, 5:56 PM, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:09:31PM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: >> On 2014-08-13, 6:02 PM, Shu-yu Guo wrote: >>> About not changing the behavior for chrome JS, the prospect of having >>> chrome JS becoming more divergent from standard JS is unwelcome to me.

Re: Non-backward compatible changes to JS 'let' semantics

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 06:09:31PM -0400, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2014-08-13, 6:02 PM, Shu-yu Guo wrote: > >About not changing the behavior for chrome JS, the prospect of having chrome > >JS becoming more divergent from standard JS is unwelcome to me. Having > >additional, orthogonal features i

Re: Telemetry alerts for histograms

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 12:06:08PM -0700, Steve Fink wrote: > On 08/13/2014 08:36 AM, rviti...@mozilla.com wrote: > > I requested a public list available over NNTP (see Bug 1053202, > > mozilla.qa.telemetry-alerts). That should make everybody happy. > > > > I would sort of like a pulse notificati

Re: Non-Trivial SpecialPowers Usage Considered Harmful

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:13 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > Note that anything tested in mochitest-chrome is not tested on Firefox OS at > all, which is a *great* reason to avoid writing mochitest-chrome at all > costs. Well, until bug 797164 is fixed. Mochitest-chrome is absolutely the right framewo

Re: Telemetry alerts for histograms

On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:06:08 PM UTC+1, Steve Fink wrote: > I would sort of like a pulse notification for these, but it probably > > wouldn't get enough usage yet for it to be worthwhile. (I'd feed it into > > an irc bot that notifies me + maybe a channel.) > > > > https://wiki.mozilla

Re: Non-Trivial SpecialPowers Usage Considered Harmful

On 2014-08-09, 10:19 PM, Bobby Holley wrote: I've mentioned this before [1], but recent checkins in mozilla-central suggest that this message could use repeating. Please don't write new tests that do tricky things with SpecialPowers.wrap and friends (like SpecialPowers.Cc and SpecialPowers.Cu, w

Re: Non-backward compatible changes to JS 'let' semantics

On 2014-08-13, 6:02 PM, Shu-yu Guo wrote: About not changing the behavior for chrome JS, the prospect of having chrome JS becoming more divergent from standard JS is unwelcome to me. Having additional, orthogonal features is one thing, but a fundamental feature with the same syntax that behave

Re: Non-backward compatible changes to JS 'let' semantics

About not changing the behavior for chrome JS, the prospect of having chrome JS becoming more divergent from standard JS is unwelcome to me. Having additional, orthogonal features is one thing, but a fundamental feature with the same syntax that behaves differently depending on the context is ve

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

> Anyways, now that gaia revisions are tied to m-c revisions with > b2g/config/gaia.json, regression range hunting should be a matter of > tooling around that, now. > That is excellent news. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.or

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 10:52:29AM -0700, Doug Turner wrote: > Did we ever reach agreement about moving gaia into m-c? It would make > this type of problem go away, and make regression range hunting much > easier. The gaia repo is massive, importing it in m-c would more than double m-c's size. An

Re: Non-backward compatible changes to JS 'let' semantics

Hi, On 08/13/2014 02:29 PM, Shu-yu Guo wrote: > We are in the process of making JS 'let' semantics ES6-compliant in > SpiderMonkey. I hope to land bug 1001090 sometime this month or early next > month (I've been told there's a B2G uplift on Sept 1st), which is one of many > for ES6 'let'-complian

Re: Non-backward compatible changes to JS 'let' semantics

AFAICT gaia doesn't use let in its core code (since let is not available in non-chrome js yet) but it does use it in its build scripts etc. However, let is pretty heavily used in add-ons. CCing Jorge who can probably help with what to do with that. But have we considered not changing the beh

Non-backward compatible changes to JS 'let' semantics

Hello all, We are in the process of making JS 'let' semantics ES6-compliant in SpiderMonkey. I hope to land bug 1001090 sometime this month or early next month (I've been told there's a B2G uplift on Sept 1st), which is one of many for ES6 'let'-compliance. It changes 'let' semantics in two non-ba

Re: Intent to implement: Prerendering API

On 2014-08-13, 3:24 PM, Ilya Grigorik wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Ilya Grigorik wrote: Whereas for (b) you can also do it in place by prefetching the template and then issuing a data request for relevant data once you know th

How to convert nsIMutableArray to AtomArray

In fact, I am implementing something like: [scriptable, uuid(3c2a2d26-08d6-415b-a635-24f15983bde6)] interface nsIMultilineTreeView: nsITreeView { long getCellTextPartCount(in long row, in nsITreeColumn col); AString getCellTextPart(in long row, in nsITreeColumn col, in long partIdx); v

Re: Intent to implement: Prerendering API

On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Ilya Grigorik > wrote: > > Whereas for (b) you can also do it in place by prefetching the template > and then issuing a data request for relevant data once you know the exact > URL... Which, of course, is ex

Re: Intent to implement: Prerendering API

(reposting, got stuck in the queue) On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote: > On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:04 PM, Ilya Grigorik > wrote: > > Whereas for (b) you can also do it in place by prefetching the template > and then issuing a data request for relevant data once you know the e

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On 08/13/2014 07:24 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Can't you do the following instead? unused << MyFunction(); // I know that I'm leaking this ref, but it's ok somehow No, because the use-case is where you don't want to leak the ref -- you want

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

On 8/13/2014 12:21 PM, Edwin Wong wrote: > Hi dev-platform, > > TL;DR - Cloud Services and Quality Engineering would like to propose the > creation of a directory named “external" in gecko and gaia repos for > externally dependent tests. > > This enables features married to Cloud Services such

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

On 2014-08-13, 3:07 PM, Edwin Wong wrote: Ehsan, This wouldn’t be a top level dir, it would be as such: • [area]/[framework]/external/test_example.js • content/media/test/mochitest/external/test_loop.html • gaia/apps/findmydevice/test/marionette/external/fmd_locate.py

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

Ehsan, This wouldn’t be a top level dir, it would be as such: • [area]/[framework]/external/test_example.js • content/media/test/mochitest/external/test_loop.html • gaia/apps/findmydevice/test/marionette/external/fmd_locate.py -edwin On Aug 13, 2014, at 11:58 AM, Ehsan

Re: Telemetry alerts for histograms

On 08/13/2014 08:36 AM, rviti...@mozilla.com wrote: > I requested a public list available over NNTP (see Bug 1053202, > mozilla.qa.telemetry-alerts). That should make everybody happy. > I would sort of like a pulse notification for these, but it probably wouldn't get enough usage yet for it to be

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

Hi Greg, A few had discussed manifest vs directory separation of tests. I think the directory idea took root because it’s easily identifiable from it’s path, reducing collision with existing tests. I also agree, using directory as a form of meta data is limiting. That said, both concepts can

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On 2014-08-13, 12:24 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: Can't you do the following instead? unused << MyFunction(); // I know that I'm leaking this ref, but it's ok somehow No, because the use-case is where you don't want to leak the ref -- you want

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

On 2014-08-13, 12:21 PM, Edwin Wong wrote: Hi dev-platform, TL;DR - Cloud Services and Quality Engineering would like to propose the creation of a directory named “external" in gecko and gaia repos for externally dependent tests. This enables features married to Cloud Services such as Loop, F

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On 08/13/2014 07:44 AM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > If that is the goal, then I don't agree that is a useful outcome at all. I > *do* wish that there were better *and* safer ways of doing more things > automatically but ownership transfers are inherently unsafe operations that > are expressed using var

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

Did we ever reach agreement about moving gaia into m-c? It would make this type of problem go away, and make regression range hunting much easier. On Aug 13, 2014, at 9:21 AM, Edwin Wong wrote: > Hi dev-platform, > > TL;DR - Cloud Services and Quality Engineering would like to propose the

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > > No, because the use-case is where you don't want to leak the ref -- > you want it to be released automatically for you. So for instance, > here's a real-world bit of code from nsWSRunObject: > > if ((aRun->mRightType & WSType::block)

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:14 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > I think this can be improved upon a bit further: just change > already_AddRefed to behave more similarly to nsCOMPtr, but still not > convert to T* implicitly. So for instance: > > * Change ~already_AddRefed to just release the pointer instea

Re: External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

On 8/13/14 9:21 AM, Edwin Wong wrote: Hi dev-platform, TL;DR - Cloud Services and Quality Engineering would like to propose the creation of a directory named “external" in gecko and gaia repos for externally dependent tests. This enables features married to Cloud Services such as Loop, FindMy

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 5:44 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > Can't you do the following instead? > > unused << MyFunction(); // I know that I'm leaking this ref, but it's ok > somehow No, because the use-case is where you don't want to leak the ref -- you want it to be released automatically for you.

External dependent tests in gecko and gaia

Hi dev-platform, TL;DR - Cloud Services and Quality Engineering would like to propose the creation of a directory named “external" in gecko and gaia repos for externally dependent tests. This enables features married to Cloud Services such as Loop, FindMyDevice, FirefoxAccounts, and Sync to

Re: Help for new MDN page on testing frameworks (technical and editorial)

On 8/13/2014 4:55 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Too bad I didn't know about your page before, it would have saved me > quite some time. Well, I just created the page :-) The work for better descriptions in mach and Treeherder is quite useful as well! > By the way, do you know what is talos g1? I d

Re: Help for new MDN page on testing frameworks (technical and editorial)

Hello Paolo, On 13/08/2014 17:40, Paolo Amadini wrote: > I've just updated the MDN page about the testing frameworks to add more > details, like the process where the tests run in an e10s build, and > moved everything to a table to make the information more accessible. > The links to detail pages

Re: Help for new MDN page on testing frameworks (technical and editorial)

On 13/08/2014 16:40, Paolo Amadini wrote: I've just updated the MDN page about the testing frameworks to add more details, like the process where the tests run in an e10s build, and moved everything to a table to make the information more accessible. Thank you for doing that! :-) (Also CCing aut

Re: Telemetry alerts for histograms

I requested a public list available over NNTP (see Bug 1053202, mozilla.qa.telemetry-alerts). That should make everybody happy. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Passing variant Array (can contain number, string...) to JS-XPCOM from C++

Thanks Bholly. regards, Shan' On Wednesday, August 13, 2014 8:48:40 PM UTC+5:30, Bobby Holley wrote: > If this is from a binary component, i would advise against passing > > JSVals directly, because the APIs you need to manipulate are no longer > > exported (they're still temporarily exported i

Re: Passing variant Array (can contain number, string...) to JS-XPCOM from C++

If this is from a binary component, i would advise against passing JSVals directly, because the APIs you need to manipulate are no longer exported (they're still temporarily exported in Windows IIUC, but that's changing soon). See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=978995 Instead, you mi

Web APIs documentation meeting Friday at 10 AM PDT

The Web APIs documentation meeting is Friday at 10 AM Pacific Time (see http://bit.ly/APIDocsMeeting for your time zone). Everyone's welcome to attend; if you're interested in ensuring that all Web APIs are properly documented, we'd love your input. We have an agenda, as well as details on how

Passing variant Array (can contain number, string...) to JS-XPCOM from C++

Hi, I have to pass an array of strings (or JS::Value array) to JS-XPCOM from my C++ code. I could not find the proper example in C++ to implements this. Based on the "jsFunction" I am passing in JS-XPCOM, i will extract the correct number of values in the JS and call the expected function. Ho

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Ehsan Akhgari > wrote: > > What goal would this achieve? I don't understand why it's OK to ignore > the > > return value of a function which returns an "already AddRef'ed" object > from > > a conceptual pers

Re: Upcoming changes to Mac package layout, signing

On 14-08-12 08:46 PM, Cameron McCormack wrote: > Ben Hearsum wrote: >> Apple recently announced changes to how OS X applications must be >> packaged and signed > > Does this also apply if you run .app/Contents/MacOS/firefox binary > manually rather than opening the .app? I'm not sure about that.

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 4:11 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > What goal would this achieve? I don't understand why it's OK to ignore the > return value of a function which returns an "already AddRef'ed" object from > a conceptual perspective. You might want the effect of the function but not care abou

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On 2014-08-13, 8:14 AM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Jeff Walden wrote: So at risk of adding yet another flavor of thing: why not introduce an already_AddRefed sort of struct that *does* own an addref, *will* release on destruction if not nulled out, and does *not* exp

Re: Upcoming changes to Mac package layout, signing

On 8/13/2014 3:34 AM, Philipp Kewisch wrote: Does this also affect binary extensions in any way? I'd imagine that globally installed extensions would break signing if placed incorrectly. You cannot place anything in the Firefox bundle. Any extensions, binary or not, would need to be elsewher

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On 08/12/2014 06:23 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 6:16 PM, Benoit Jacob wrote: As far as I know, the only downside in replacing already_AddRefed by nsCOMPtr would be to incur more useless calls to AddRef and Release. In the case of "threadsafe" i.e. atomic refcounting, these u

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 3:14 PM, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > It has > the disadvantage that you could still not pass an already_AddRefed > directly to a function that wants T*, which is unfortunate because > it's perfectly safe to do so. I can't think of any way to avoid that > except defining new type

Re: We should drop MathML

> Actually, MS is very clear on their position on MathML in Internet Explorer: > http://status.modern.ie/mathml?term=mathML Well, status.modern.ie was published about a year after my message. Curiously enough, according to http://blogs.msdn.com/b/murrays/archive/2014/04/27/opentype-math-tables.

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:42 AM, Jeff Walden wrote: > So at risk of adding yet another flavor of thing: why not introduce an > already_AddRefed sort of struct that *does* own an addref, *will* release > on destruction if not nulled out, and does *not* explicitly convert to T*? > Give nsCOMPtr

Re: Evaluating adding JOSE and JWS to mozilla-central

Well there is which does JWS. It is available in privileged JS through jwcrypto.jsm (i.e. resource://gre/modules/identity/jwcrypto.jsm). There's some code usage for these things in the MobileIdentityManager, Webapps and Payments jsms. On 12.08.2014 19:22, Gr

Re: Getting rid of already_AddRefed?

Karl Tomlinson wrote: Aryeh Gregor writes: The compiler is required to use the move constructor (if one exists) instead of the copy constructor when constructing the return value of a function, and also when initializing an object from the return value of a function, or assigning the return

Re: Telemetry alerts for histograms

On 12/08/2014 16:57, rviti...@mozilla.com wrote: > From now on all alerts will be sent by default also to > telemetry-ale...@mozilla.com. How does one read that list? I can't find anywhere on how to subscribe. -- GCP ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-p

Re: Upcoming changes to Mac package layout, signing

On 8/12/14 7:05 PM, Ben Hearsum wrote: > Hi all, > > Apple recently announced changes to how OS X applications must be packaged > and signed > (https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/technotes/tn2206/_index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/DTS40007919-CH1-TNTAG205) > in order for them to function corr