On Wed, 13 Jun 2001 18:50:15 -0700, "Peter Sorotokin"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>Note that only handful of Mozilla interfaces are frozen right now.
correct.
>Does anyone has (or anticipates) this problem?
YES. Beatnik Player runs fine in N6.0 and N6.01 but crashes hard in
N6.1 due to a situation arising out of the use of an unfrozen
interface.
>Would it be feasible for Mozila to change IID of *any* interface every
>time its vtable layout is changed (this would not seem to require anything
>but IID string change in the same IDL file)?
Unlikely to happen before an interface is declared frozen. But all is
not lost - the best thing is for interfaces to be modified in a
backwards-compatible way when at all possible, when the interface
isn't frozen. That does require a certain amount of vigilance on the
part of third party developers.
Most interfaces that you'd need to use as a plugin developer are
pretty solid (few changes in the last several months) and changes to
them have been in backwards-compatible ways (nsIModule,
nsIComponentManager, nsIMemory, nsIXPConnect, etc).
