Well, cause that's not possible to implement APIs in webidl in the external dll with the xul
On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 3:55 PM, Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Why not use webidl to expose the apis you want in workers? > On Jan 3, 2016 8:08 PM, "罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo)" <luoyongg...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 6:38 AM, Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> As XPConnect module owner, I'd like to get it in record that we will >>> almost >>> certainly not take this or any support code for it (i.e. code in >>> js-ctypes) >>> in mozilla-central. >>> >>> Well, I was already have a modified version of mozilla-central, if the >> upstream is not possible, then I just need to maintain the fork and can not >> upstream the code. >> >>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Joshua Cranmer 🐧 <pidgeo...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>> > On 1/3/2016 10:24 AM, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) wrote: >>> > >>> >> So that we could be able to access xpcom in worker. >>> >> And we could be able to implement thunderbird new msg protocol in >>> pure >>> >> javascript >>> >> >>> > >>> > I will point out that Thunderbird developers are already looking into >>> > replacing the xpcom use of message protocols, so if that is the primary >>> > goal, then you are wasting your time, I am afraid. >>> > >>> > I will also point out that both JavaScript and C++ have moved on from >>> the >>> > time xpconnect was developed to the point that use of xpconnect >>> requires >>> > designing APIs that are uncomfortable to use from C++ or JavaScript (or >>> > even both!), so it is a much better investment of time to move APIs to >>> > newer paradigms than it is to try to develop a system that almost no >>> one >>> > really understands. >>> > >>> > -- >>> > Joshua Cranmer >>> > Thunderbird and DXR developer >>> > Source code archæologist >>> > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > dev-platform mailing list >>> > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>> > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ >>> dev-platform mailing list >>> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org >>> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> 此致 >> 礼 >> 罗勇刚 >> Yours >> sincerely, >> Yonggang Luo >> > -- 此致 礼 罗勇刚 Yours sincerely, Yonggang Luo _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
