On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 8:40 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com > wrote:
> > (3) Do extensions use it? If so, changing it probably isn't possible. This > can > be imperfectly determined by searching through addons/ in DXR. > There is no rule that we can't break old-style addons: it just makes the change riskier and may require outreach or an addon validation step. So it's a question of risk/reward tradeoff. Given that old-style addons are going away for 57, if it's possible to delay addon-breaking IDL changes by one release until 57 that's probably the easiest way to deal with this. We're already causing the addon community a lot of churn. > > (4) Does Thunderbird use it? This is no longer a hard constraint, but is > something to consider. > In general our policy is that we should spend only minimal time worrying about this. A courtesy note to tbird devs is nice. > (Although, if DevTools are moved its their own repository, that repo will > have to be > checked as well?) > I've been trying to find out some technical details about the devtools plan, but my initial understanding is that they are trying to target stable web/webextensions/debugger API surfaces, and so they *shouldn't* be affected by gecko internals changes. But I'd be a lot more comfortable if that were in writing as part of the devtools plan. --BDS _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
