On 2/2/2019 10:02 PM, Philipp Kewisch wrote:
On 1/24/19 11:25 PM, Paolo Amadini wrote: I'm not expecting any major changes to the new about:config that would require communication, as long as a the boundary between toolkit and browser is kept.
On this specifically, the boundary between "toolkit" and "browser" is really blurred at the moment, mostly for historical reasons. This is reflected by all the special cases we have in the build system. It's more probable that if the distinction becomes clearer in the future, it would probably see "toolkit" as the shared folder between Android and Desktop, with "browser" being the Desktop-specific folder and "mobile" being the Android-specific one. Thus, some things that are now in "toolkit" would move to "browser" and not the other way around. Alternatively, these might just become more blurred as we continue working on multiple products in mozilla-central without a clear direction for the organization of these folder other than historical reasons. In this case, we might find that we can move assets more freely and we can consider "toolkit" as shared with Thunderbird, with a passive commitment to making updates to "toolkit" on Thunderbird's request.
Speaking for the Thunderbird project after conferring with our engineering manager, a separate code base for such an integral feature of toolkit would not lessen the maintenance burden.
Thanks for discussing this. I've filed bug 1524836 where we can evaluate our options and continue the discussion for "about:config" specifically. Cheers, Paolo _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
