> I very much agree with your target goals: initialization; component
> registration, instantiation, loading and unloading; and shutdown. I
> just don't think that things like nsAgg.h need to be part of that, and I
> think that there's a whole lot of work to do just around getting those
> "few" pieces right, so we don't want to borrow trouble.
Great! I think that a minimal set is all we need to fill the embedding
requirement. If we don't have to freeze C++ stuff, all the better.
> Which? nsIComponentManager has stuff that needs to be taken out of it
> (like most of the RegisterComponent calls, which imply a shared-library
> component loader); it has some [noscript] methods that need to be made
> scriptable; it needs to stop using nsIEnumerator in its interfaces;
> freeLibraries needs to take a |when| parameter (and probably pass it
> along to nsIModule::canUnload).
Okay. I will start filling bugs and find people to fix these problem (or
I will fix them).
> nsIServiceManager needs to be IDLized.
Why should this be have to be in idl to be frozen?
> Even the NS_IMPL_ISUPPORTS stuff needs to be changed, so that we don't
> rely on a debug-only NS_CurrentThread.
could you elaborate?
> Yes, we need to get the interfaces into the final form, so that
> consumers can start writing to the new, frozen APIs. But there are more
> issues than just the signatures of methods and layout of XPCOM
> interfaces to nail down, like threading: what components and methods are
> re-entrant? Which are threadsafe? Can you call shutdown on a different
> thread than you ran the initialization on? Can you release a service on
> a different thread than the one you grabbed it on?
Shutting down and threadsafety are concerns, but I do not see them as
blocking freezing an API set.
> What about the STANDALONE build? What about dependencies on netwerk?
it is sick. did you see alecf's posting in the embedding newsgroup?
Bug again, I do not see how this can block freezing a set of interfaces.
> Now that nsAString is a typelib-supported type, we need to freeze and
> document its binary layout.
Part of a string bug assign to scc.
