Not that I have any say in this :) … But… Changing the IID sounds like a bad idea. It will indeed cause trouble for extension developers.
Besides that, changing the IID to fix an issue sounds like a hack to me.. On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 8:34 AM, Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]>wrote: > The IID of nsIChannel was changed between beta4 and beta5, for bugs 589292 > and 536324. While I agree that these are virtuous changes, I don't think we > should be changing the IIDs of base interfaces so late in the beta cycle. > It's going to be very difficult to distinguish between crashes caused by > third-party extensions which were compiled against beta4, and crashes caused > by issues within our own code. > > This change *might* be related to the topcrash bugs 591880 and 591678, but > I really can't tell. > > Unless these changes were absolutely necessary for e10s (and it doesn't > look to me as if they were), I think these should be backed out and > postponed until after branching. > > --BDS > _______________________________________________ > dev-tech-network mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network > _______________________________________________ dev-tech-network mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-tech-network
