Christopher Blizzard wrote: > Yeah, looks like we have some defacto freezing going on here. We are > beholden to binary plugins already. ( Yucky again. )
The alternative is more... yucky. Suppose we do not offer any backward compatibly. Suppose also that you download a plugin that was build against 0.92. You install it in your new build running with our new xpcom frozen APIs. You go to a page that uses the xpcom plugin. Guess what, it will not display a message that says that something is wrong, it will do something much worse: it will just crash. I don't have the intestinal fortitude to tell all the early adopters to rebuild, retest, and reship newer versions of their plugins asap. I also can't tell major embedders of mozilla that all the current plugin that use XPCOM will crash their embedding client. Just really not a good idea IMO. doug turner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
