On 8/7/17 1:05 PM, Kris Maglione wrote:
So what is the state of things at the moment? Should we just turn off
old-style addons on nightly? If not, then we should probably stop
breaking them until we _do_ turn them off.
I don't think so. Extension authors know the score here.
OK, I thought about this some more, and here's the problem as I see it.
Extension authors may know the score (though see below), but nightly
users may not, and even if they do they may not realize that addons are
involved in breakage.
So if right now we land a patch that breaks addons, and a nightly user
updates, they get a broken browser and have to try to figure out whether
it's because we broken an addon (and this may not be the first thing
they think of) or because we introduced a bug that they should report.
So I strongly feel that to avoid wasting the time and effort of our
nightly users we should not start landing addon-breaking changes (or at
least ones that might cause exceptions in addons that break various
browser functionality) until after we have disabled addons.
Note that the issues addon authors are having are precisely the "we
don't want to make nightly users' lives hell, so we're trying to make
sure our addons keep working for the users who have them installed"
issue. As in, they're caring more about our nightly users a lot more
than some of our developers seem to be. :(
If people just want to clean up IDL, which is what I'm seeing, they
should start with the ton of noscript interfaces we have that need
cleanup and which are known to not break any addons ever since we remove
binary addon support.
-Boris
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