Re: Request for Comment on XPCOM Public Interfaces

[Mike Shaver]

Doug Turner wrote:

> so, nsServiceManager adds the growing list of "things that people are 
> using that we shouldn't break and we don't want to support". 


I think it was broken recently, according to some reports of the beta 
(!) Java plugin not working.

I guess we need to leave it in, because it's widely used by Mozilla-core 
code, so maybe source-compatible is enough.  (Or maybe too much; I think 
there are some things in the service manager that predate our 
comptrization of the world.)

> Actually, as of a few days ago, you could try to QI the 
> nsIComponentManager for the nsIServiceManager.  Unless somone has 
> changed something in their tree, this should work..

Excellent news.

Mike