Re: Request for Comment on XPCOM Public Interfaces

[Mike Shaver]

Rick Potts wrote:

> I believe that nsIEnumerator is our first frozen, depricated interface :-)
> 
> nsIEnumerator is considered frozen because nsIComponentManager exposes 
> it.  I believe that nsIComponentManager has been considered frozen (for 
> the past year+) because of its usage by plugins.


I'm not buying it.  XPCOM isn't frozen yet, none of those interfaces 
went through API review prior to being "frozen", and there's all sorts 
of cruft in nsIComponentManager that needs to be taken out.  That's 
_why_ we're going through this freezing exercise.

I'll buy the need to support the 4.x NPAPI for plugins, but it would be 
the height of folly for us to sign up to long-term support for the 
"new-style" XPCOM plugin interfaces; they're a disaster.

(And nobody writing a plugin is going to be using enumerateContractIDs, 
I assure you.  Changing it to return nsISimpleEnumerator -- rebranded 
nsIEnumerator, I hope -- won't hurt a thing.)

Mike