For the Firefox TVs in market I think you should identify the latest ESR release that has support those televisions and recommend that your developers use those.
-dave On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 7:07 AM, Shih-Chiang Chien <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > There are still Firefox OS TV (2015/2016) in market that supports WebIDE > debugging. Glad to hear that you keep the backwards capability in devtool > architecture. Breaking the existing functionality will make the end user > really upset and it'll hurt Mozilla's reputation. > > Best Regards, > Shih-Chiang Chien > Mozilla Taiwan > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 9:29 PM, J. Ryan Stinnett <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Keep in mind that we still want to support Firefox for Android back to >> release channel, so we still want to keep traits in general. That's a >> much smaller time window than we supported for Firefox OS, so it >> should allow for some simplification. >> >> Also, a number of our traits are used by Valence as flags to tell the >> client "that's not implemented yet", so those are important to keep to >> avoid breaking this use case. >> >> So, I think the type of compatibility that could now be removed are >> things where the protocol semantics changed in some Gecko older than >> release channel and the trait is not useful for saying "I don't >> support feature X". >> >> I have updated our backward compatibility page with this information: >> >> https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/Backwards_Compatibility >> >> - Ryan >> >> >> On Wed, Jan 27, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Joe Walker <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > TL;DR: Yes, if that helps. >> > >> > Support for any fxos debugees is always possible using the 'right' >> debugger >> > version. >> > Maintaining strict backwards compatibility just made it easier for >> people >> > that didn't want to find the right debugger version. >> > >> > So I think we should feel free to remove the maintenance burden of >> > supporting older fxos debugees. That doesn't mean we need to rip it all >> out >> > tomorrow, but we shouldn't put any significant effort into backwards >> compat >> > for fxos from now. >> > >> > There are likely to be nuances to this which we can discuss, but in >> > principle the answer your question is "Yes, if that helps". >> > >> > Joe. >> > >> > On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:20 PM J. Ryan Stinnett <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:31 PM, Nick Fitzgerald >> >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> > Perhaps we can now remove remote debugger protocol compatibility >> support >> >> > for legacy fxos debuggees? >> >> >> >> I'll bring up this topic at next week's DevTools meeting. >> >> >> >> - Ryan >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> dev-developer-tools mailing list >> >> [email protected] >> >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-developer-tools >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-fxos mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos >> > >
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