Re: Removal of NSS and/or NSPR from the API exposed to addons

2012-01-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:15:51AM -0500, John Dennis wrote: > On 01/19/2012 07:26 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: > >He is talking about runtime detection. Not build time detection. And we > >already have --with-system-nss. My point is that it's probably not worth > >trying to do

Re: Removal of NSS and/or NSPR from the API exposed to addons

2012-01-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 06:52:26AM -0500, Eitan Adler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:55 AM, Brian Smith wrote: > > Mike Hommey wrote: > >> But linux users are not necessarily up-to-date with the latest NSS. I > >> seriously doubt the number of users with the very l

Re: Removal of NSS and/or NSPR from the API exposed to addons

2012-01-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:45:02PM -0800, Brian Smith wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > > In the long run, for performance reasons, we should probably prefer > > > the system NSS libraries to our own, whenever the system NSS > > > libraries are available and are

Re: Removal of NSS and/or NSPR from the API exposed to addons

2012-01-18 Thread Mike Hommey
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 02:44:34PM -0800, Brian Smith wrote: > Mike Hommey wrote: > > Please note that this is going to be a problem on systems that have > > system nspr and nss libraries that other system libraries use. > > I am intending to avoid changing how NSS is linked