date:20131009

Re: Audit your code if you use mozilla::WeakPtr

2013-10-09 Thread Boris Zbarsky


On 10/8/13 10:32 PM, Justin Dolske wrote:

Would that be a kungFuDeathGrep? (Sorry. Just making weak pun.)


You mean mozilla::WeakpPunT?

-Boris

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Re: Poll: What do you need in MXR/DXR?

2013-10-09 Thread Mook


On 10/02/2013 12:33 PM, Erik Rose wrote:

What features do you most use in MXR and DXR?
(Apologies for the late reply; didn't really check newsgroups during the 
summit - bad wifi and having too much to do.  Didn't about the design 
session in SC for the same reason.)


I look up XPCOM interfaces a lot; as an example, 
http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=nsIObserverService 
doesn't seem very useful - the actual interface definition is near the 
bottom.  The various type/function/whatever forms in the advanced search 
just returns nothing.  (Other than the path search, of course, but not 
all interfaces are files named after them.)  The equivalent webidl 
search would be something like 
http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=HTMLBaseElement 
(type:HTMLBaseElement finds no results).


++ on unifying identifier search (across types of identifiers), tree 
switching, blame integration, rev pinning, etc - things already covered 
by the wiki.  (In roughly that order.)


HTH,

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Re: C++ Standards Committee meeting next week

2013-10-09 Thread Jeff Walden

On 10/02/2013 06:06 PM, Botond Ballo wrote:
 Having to repeat 'expr' is rather unfortunate, and C++14
 fixes that. You can now write:
 
   auto function(A a, B b)
   {
   return expr;
   }
 
 The only restriction is 
 that if there are multiple return expressions, they
 must all have the same type.

Same type as in the std::is_same sense?  Or same type in the a?b:c sense, where 
b/c can be different types, and one expression must convert to the other's 
type?  I assume you mean the former, but I can imagine cases (think pointers 
and nullptr) where the latter would definitely be nice.

Jeff
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Re: Poll: What do you need in MXR/DXR?

2013-10-09 Thread Nicholas Nethercote

On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Neil n...@parkwaycc.co.uk wrote:

 Nor can I seem to get regexp search to work; I never get any results.

If you're using the regexp field in the advanced search, you're
probably failing to put '/' (or some other delimiter) at the start and
end.  I too was having trouble with this until very recently.

Nick
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Re: Poll: What do you need in MXR/DXR?

2013-10-09 Thread Neil


Nicholas Nethercote wrote:


On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 1:49 AM, Neil n...@parkwaycc.co.uk wrote:
 


Nor can I seem to get regexp search to work; I never get any results.
   


If you're using the regexp field in the advanced search, you're probably 
failing to put '/' (or some other delimiter) at the start and end.  I too was 
having trouble with this until very recently.
 


Thanks, that made regexp: search work for me.

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Re: Supporting the Windows Certificate Store

2013-10-09 Thread n24289

On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 12:17:12 PM UTC-5, joshu...@gmail.com wrote:
 I know that there are probably well thought out reasons that this isn't a
 features already...BUT! Lot's of US Government users can't use Firefox 
 because it doesn't use the Windows certificate store. 

Months late to this party, but I do not believe there is a well-thought-out 
reason why Firefox does not support the MS certificate store. There are 
rationalizations, certainly, and those who make them probably feel they are 
justified--but the bottom line is that Chrome, Safari, and IE all support MS' 
native certificate store, and so should Firefox. 

In this case, yes: if all the other lemmings are jumping off the cliff, so 
should Firefox. Make it opt-in if necessary, but make it happen.  That way end 
users won't have to dick around with multiple certificate stores in order to 
use Firefox, and the developers can feel they're maintaining their principled, 
if esoteric, stand.
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Re: Poll: What do you need in MXR/DXR?

2013-10-09 Thread Andrew Halberstadt

Better python support. For example, the function name parameter doesn't
work with ext: .py

http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=function%3Astart%20ext%3A.py
-- no results
http://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/search?q=%22def%20start%22%20ext%3A.py
-- results

On 10/02/2013 03:33 PM, Erik Rose wrote:

What features do you most use in MXR and DXR?

Over in the recently renamed Web Engineering group, we're working hard to
retire MXR. It hasn't been maintained for a long time, and there's a lot of
duplication between it and DXR, which rests upon a more modern foundation and
has been developing like crazy. However, there are some holes we need to fill
before we can expect you to make a Big Switch. An obvious one is indexing more
trees: comm-central, aurora, etc. And we certainly have some bothersome UI bugs
to squash. But I'd like to hear from you, the actual users, so it's not just me
and Taras guessing at priorities.

What keeps you off DXR? (What are the MXR things you use constantly? Or the
things which are seldom-used but vital?)

If you're already using DXR as part of your workflow, what could it do to make
your work more fun?

Feel free to reply here, or attach a comment to this blog post, which talks
about some of the things we've done recently and are considering for the future:

https://blog.mozilla.org/webdev/2013/09/30/dxr-gets-faster-hardware-vcs-integration-and-snazzier-indexing/

We'll use your input to build our priorities for Q4, so wish away!

Cheers,
Erik

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What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-09 Thread Gervase Markham

Attack surface reduction works:
http://blog.gerv.net/2013/10/attack-surface-reduction-works/

Removing E4X broke the NSA's EGOTISTICALGOAT attack - a type confusion
vulnerability in E4X.

In the spirit of learning from this, what's next on the chopping block?

A quick survey of the security-group led to the following suggestions,
and I'm sure there are more:

* JS engine: Proxy.create, Object.prototype.watch, __noSuchMethod__,
legacy (pre-ES6) generators, __iterator__, non-ES6 let-blocks, pre-ES6
expression closures

* Editor (share a JS implementation with Servo instead)

* Most OOM recovery in the JS engine

* FTP (perhaps replace with JS implementation from FireFTP)

* Windows integrated auth

* XSLT (Chrome have already announced they will remove it:
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/zIg2KC7PyH0
;
https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/blink-dev/k8aIeI6BCG0
)

Gerv
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