Re: Using MozPhab without Arcanist

2019-10-24 Thread Axel Hecht
MozPhab-0.1.55. I will check soon with this version. Thanks! Henrik You need to run self-update twice to move over to the pip version. Also, make sure to not run it while in a virtualenv like I did. Otherwise you end up uninstalling and installing it from scratch ;-) Axel

mach lint -l l10n coming your way

2019-05-02 Thread Axel Hecht
. Axel [1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/intl/l10n/l10n/fluent_tutorial.html#pseudolocalization [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548500 ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org

Re: Patching FF 52.9esr with v60+ Security updates possible?

2019-04-13 Thread Axel Hecht
take is that you may be able to apply a lot of the patches that have CVEs, but that's likely not going to get you a code base that is similarily secure as the one we're working on. Axel Am 13.04.19 um 00:43 schrieb Charles Robertson: Hi, I know this sounds like a strange questions. However, we

Re: Improving our usage of Bugzilla

2019-04-03 Thread Axel Hecht
- EPM help enhancement - Product help or the other way around? As you listed them the other way around, and that's not how I'd line them up. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev

Re: PSA: Min clang / libclang requirement was updated not long ago...

2019-02-27 Thread Axel Hecht
Am 27.02.19 um 15:28 schrieb Nathan Froyd: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 9:05 AM Axel Hecht wrote: Am 27.02.19 um 14:39 schrieb Nathan Froyd: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:22 AM Kartikaya Gupta wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 3:40 AM Axel Hecht wrote: Can we please not force bootstrap? +1

Re: PSA: Min clang / libclang requirement was updated not long ago...

2019-02-27 Thread Axel Hecht
Am 27.02.19 um 14:39 schrieb Nathan Froyd: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 6:22 AM Kartikaya Gupta wrote: On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 3:40 AM Axel Hecht wrote: Can we please not force bootstrap? +1. In general bootstrap isn't "rock solid" enough to force people into running it. If p

Re: PSA: Min clang / libclang requirement was updated not long ago...

2019-02-27 Thread Axel Hecht
own install of hg, for the sake of extensions I use. ./mach bootstrap interferes with those decisions, so I can't run it anymore. Axel Am 26.02.19 um 19:17 schrieb Chris Peterson: Seems like mach bootstrap should have a clobber flag so anyone updating build tool dependencies can force people

Re: New and improved "about:config" for Firefox Desktop

2019-01-25 Thread Axel Hecht
scoverable? Axel Am 24.01.19 um 20:31 schrieb Paolo Amadini: Last year a group of students, Luke, Matthias, and Vincent, designed and implemented a new version of "about:config" in order to improve the ergonomics and align the look and feel with other in-content Firefox pages. The

Re: C++ standards proposal for a embedding library

2018-07-18 Thread Axel Hecht
on the interesting question of such a stdlib thing, and how that impacts choice and innovation on the web space. Which should be a more important question probably for mozilla. Axel Am 18.07.18 um 21:55 schrieb Botond Ballo: On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 3:32 PM, Jeff Gilbert wrote: It feels like

Re: Intent To Require Manifests For Vendored Code In mozilla-central

2018-04-10 Thread Axel Hecht
.hgignore). There's no spec what happens with patches that fail to apply, or failed run_after scripts. Do we intend to do something if the LICENSE changes? Also, what are we supposed to do if the vendored code doesn't have a LICENSE file? Axel Am 10.04.18 um 06:25 schrieb glob: mozilla-central

Re: FYI: Short Nightly Shield Study involving DNS over HTTPs (DoH)

2018-03-21 Thread Axel Hecht
about if we should do it. Axel Am 19.03.18 um 18:08 schrieb Selena Deckelmann: Hi! Thanks for all the thoughtful comments about this experiment. The intent of this work is to provide users privacy-respecting DNS. Status quo for DNS does not offer many users reasonable, informed choice about log

Re: Password autofilling

2018-01-02 Thread Axel Hecht
with this practice in general? As much as this sounds like an arm-race, these providers are only valuable if they're on a lot of sites, so this might actually be a winnable arm-race. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla

Re: INTENT TO DEPRECATE (taskcluster l10n routing)

2017-12-04 Thread Axel Hecht
Am 04.12.17 um 05:42 schrieb Jet Villegas: On Sun, Dec 3, 2017 at 05:15 Axel Hecht <l...@mozilla.com <mailto:l...@mozilla.com>> wrote: Am 01.12.17 um 16:45 schrieb Justin Wood: > Hey Everyone, > > tl;dr if you don't download nightly l10n repacks via

Re: INTENT TO DEPRECATE (taskcluster l10n routing)

2017-12-03 Thread Axel Hecht
or concerns. No concerns, just curiousity. We're not running any tests on localized builds at this point, right? Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Proposal to remove some preferences override support

2017-11-02 Thread Axel Hecht
Looping in mkaply explicitly, if that has impact on organizational deployments. Axel Am 02.11.17 um 00:41 schrieb Nicholas Nethercote: Greetings, In https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413413 I am planning to remove a couple of things relating to preferences. 1) Remove

Re: Changes to tab min-width

2017-10-04 Thread Axel Hecht
tabs on similar sites, so the favicons don't provide any practical value. Axel Jeff On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 9:37 AM, Marco Bonardo <mbona...@mozilla.com> wrote: On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 10:36 PM, Jeff Griffiths <jgriffi...@mozilla.com> wrote: 1. do you prefer the existing behaviou

Changes to how we localize Firefox - one repository to rule a hundred repositories

2017-09-07 Thread Axel Hecht
e tracking bug is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353655. Happy to answer questions Axel PS: a hundred repositories to rule them all? Yeah, we're moving from 3-4 for each of our ~100 localizations to one for each. We intend to continue to ship a different version per locale a

Re: Mac/Win32/Win64 Nightly builds for some locales aren't being updated since 08-08

2017-08-11 Thread Axel Hecht
. Thanks! Please submit a bug if it's not working today, seems like https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389260 got fixed for today's nightly. Also CC me? Thanks Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: Phabricator and confidential reviews

2017-08-09 Thread Axel Hecht
private-attachment thing that Nicolas mentioned. Axel Am 09.08.17 um 02:30 schrieb Mark Côté: (Cross-posted to mozilla.tools) Hi, I have an update and a request for comments regarding Phabricator and confidential reviews. We've completed the functionality around limiting access to Differential

Creating a localized build locally

2017-08-04 Thread Axel Hecht
wanted to know about localized builds. Axel [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1387485 [2] https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/?sort=lastchange [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Core=Build%20Config=l...@mozilla.com

Re: More Rust code

2017-07-18 Thread Axel Hecht
r is training on how to deal with rust code that other people wrote, maybe more so than writing rust code from scratch, starting with hello-world. Axel For case #2, there will always be people that don't want to learn new languages, and I'm sympathetic to their perspective. Learning Rust we

Re: Scope of XML parser rewrite?

2017-05-24 Thread Axel Hecht
be told, though, we can only drop support when the last bit of UI is converted to L20n, and not just in Firefox, but also the other stuff. Y'know, Thunderbird, too, I guess. Axel My current goal is a drop-in replacement for expat with just the features gecko cares about, so just 1.0 version

Re: Scope of XML parser rewrite?

2017-05-23 Thread Axel Hecht
DTDs would be a deal-breaker for the foreseeable future, as we're abusing DTDs to localize X(H)TML documents. Axel PS. I hope I'm not spamming you guys too hard, I'm kind of new to the mailing list thing. Daniel Fath, daniel.fa...@gmail.com ___ dev

Re: Future of out-of-tree spell checkers?

2017-03-22 Thread Axel Hecht
equest was approved but is low priority. Jorge Note, that bug seems about using an API like mozISpellCheckingEngine from web extensions. It doesn't seem to be about providing an implementation of it via a web extension. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing li

fyi, ./mach hangs on terminal-notifier? brew update to 1.7.1

2016-10-05 Thread Axel Hecht
Hi, as an fyi, I almost filed a bug on mach hanging on terminal-notifier after the end of a build or packaging step. Seems that was a bug in terminal-notifier 1.7.0, another brew update/upgrade updated that to 1.7.1 and fixed it. Just in case you've been in that boat. Axel

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-04 Thread Axel Hecht
On 04/10/16 17:40, Fabrice Desre wrote: On 10/04/2016 08:34 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: I'd favor to remove at least anything related to l10n from b2g. It never really worked, and is a half-maintained copy of the almost-working stuff in mobile. In my local branches that try to create a test

Re: Removal of B2G from mozilla-central

2016-10-04 Thread Axel Hecht
-working stuff in mobile. In my local branches that try to create a test on broken l10n infrastructure, both mobile and b2g show up, and my preferred way to fix b2g would be to remove it (the l10n parts). Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform

Re: MXR permanently offline, please transition to DXR

2016-07-11 Thread Axel Grude
That will be really useful, thanks! All I need now is an open search engine for c-c to plug into Firefox search box. ;) Axel On 11 Jul 2016 03:09, "Peter Elmers" <pelm...@mozilla.com> wrote: > If it helps anyone, I happen to know that there exists an addon which >

Re: Questions about bindings for L20n

2016-06-14 Thread Axel Hecht
t's obviously cached, so it happens at first occasion. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Triage Plan for Firefox Components

2016-03-30 Thread Axel Hecht
the expectations, or above or below? Axel On 29/03/16 22:07, Emma Humphries wrote: tl;dr In Quarter Two I'm implementing the work we’ve been doing to improve triage, make actionable decisions on new bugs, and prevent us from shipping regressions in Firefox. Today I’m asking for feedback

Re: Intent to implement: W3C WebAppSec credentialmanagement API

2016-03-11 Thread Axel Nennker
Am Freitag, 11. März 2016 05:27:34 UTC+1 schrieb Martin Thomson: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 5:56 AM, Axel Nennker <ignisvul...@gmail.com> wrote: > > no password generation help by the UA > > I agree with MattN here, not doing this eliminates much of the > advantage of h

Intent to implement: W3C WebAppSec credentialmanagement API

2016-03-10 Thread Axel Nennker
Summary: This API is enabling a website to request a user's credentials from a user agent, and helps the user agent to correctly store user credentials for future use. It helps the LoginManager to get rid of most of the heuristics. Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1156047 Link

Re: Proposing preferring Clang over GCC for developer buidls

2016-03-03 Thread Axel Hecht
hat we should keep our CI builds close to what we intend to ship, for compiler/compiler-dependent bugs. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: rr chaos mode update

2016-02-16 Thread Axel Hecht
On 16/02/16 03:15, Kyle Huey wrote: Seems like a good thing to expect developers to do locally today. Two concerns: What's the successs criteria here? Also, speaking as an occasional code contributor, newcomers and folks like me will probably give up on contributing patches earlier. Axel

Re: Bug Program Next Steps

2016-01-31 Thread Axel Hecht
wly triaged bugs following the new process Are there good metrics to use to evaluate the success and impact of this process? To pick up on what I said earlier, getting a category for "didn't work" could be one way to measure, or at least enable us to system

Re: Just Autoland It

2016-01-26 Thread Axel Hecht
a problem is gonna be in a separate reply to a different post on this thread. Axel On 25/01/16 13:26, Honza Bambas wrote: Writing both as a patch author and a reviewer as well. - as a patch author I want a full control on when the patch actually lands (dependencies, any other timing reasons,

Re: Improving blame in Mercurial

2015-12-12 Thread Axel Hecht
will be used to drive what improvements Mercurial makes. A "reverse blame" feature that shows when a line in an old revision was deleted or changed in a newer revision is something I've desperately wanted. I just recently successfully used `hg grep --all` for that. Axel (Relatedly, I know a

Re: Using the Taskcluster index to find builds

2015-12-02 Thread Axel Hecht
one distinguish nightlies from non-nightlies under mozilla-central.latest? Assuming that nightlies might end up there on occasion? Axel On Tue, Dec 1, 2015 at 5:22 AM, Axel Hecht <l...@mozilla.com> wrote: I haven't found localized builds and their assets by glancing at things. Are

Re: Using the Taskcluster index to find builds

2015-12-01 Thread Axel Hecht
I haven't found localized builds and their assets by glancing at things. Are those to come? Also, I suspect we should rewrite wget-en-US? Or add an alternative that's index-bound? Axel On 11/30/15 9:43 PM, Chris AtLee wrote: The RelEng, Cloud Services and Taskcluster teams have been doing

Re: Why do we flush layout in nsDocumentViewer::LoadComplete?

2015-11-26 Thread Axel Hecht
given our tests do? Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Merge moved to Thursday 29th

2015-10-29 Thread Axel Hecht
ate an ETA for the patch, as that's also going in to the risk that a patch comes with. Axel On 10/29/15 1:41 PM, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: Please request the uplift. Under specific circumstances (like this one), we take string changes in aurora. Thanks Sylvestre Le 29/10/2015 13:39, Masatoshi Kimura a

Default window size on a screen of 1920x1080 or 1280x1024?

2015-09-16 Thread Axel Hecht
the panels stacked side-by-side, but that depends on the window size. So we're trying to find out common window sizes for people. Some conversation in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198287 Thanks Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform

Re: Default window size on a screen of 1920x1080 or 1280x1024?

2015-09-16 Thread Axel Hecht
Thanks, exactly what I was looking for. Axel On 9/16/15 7:13 PM, Gavin Sharp wrote: See https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/annotate/3e8dde8f8c17/browser/base/content/browser.js#l1017 if you're wondering about Firefox specifically. Gavin On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 7:26 AM, Axel Hecht &l

Re: Largest chunks of code that are likely to be removable?

2015-06-30 Thread Axel Hecht
to move rdf/ from mozilla-central into comm-central. mail has many more dependencies on RDF, I think. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Voting in BMO

2015-06-09 Thread Axel Hecht
. Axel On 6/10/15 12:09 AM, Mark Côté wrote: In a quest to simplify both the interface and the maintenance of bugzilla.mozilla.org, we're looking for features that are of questionable value to see if we can get rid of them. As I'm sure everyone knows, Bugzilla grew organically, without much of a road

Re: Mozillabuild 2.0 ready for testing

2015-03-09 Thread Axel Hecht
Hi Ryan, good news. One thing that's a bit unfortunate from the l10n perspective is the svn drop. SVN is still used quite frequently to host the website localizations, so keeping that in would be helpful. Axel, who should probably give this a test run in reals on his VM. On 3/9/15 2:44 AM

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-20 Thread axel
On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 12:57:44 PM UTC+1, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On Thu, Feb 19, 2015, at 06:32 AM, a...@mozilla.com wrote: On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 6:33:42 PM UTC+1, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: Hi, I'd like to write

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-20 Thread axel
On Friday, February 20, 2015 at 6:34:07 PM UTC+1, Tom Tromey wrote: Axel == axel-4eJtQOnFJqFBDgjK7y7TUQ axel-4ejtqonfjqfbdgjk7y7...@public.gmane.org writes: Axel We can only do this in the compiler if we actually compiled each Axel localized version by itself. Yes, I see what you mean

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-19 Thread axel
On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 at 6:33:42 PM UTC+1, Ted Mielczarek wrote: On Tue, Feb 17, 2015, at 10:27 AM, Axel Hecht wrote: Hi, I'd like to write tests to validate my assumptions around what's an error and what's a warning for localized values going into nsTextFormatter::smprintf

Re: Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-19 Thread axel
On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 11:27:11 PM UTC+1, Tom Tromey wrote: Axel writes: Axel I'm talking actual crashes, and I don't know how we would fix the Axel text formatter. I'm glancing at Axel http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/xpcom/glue/nsTextFormatter.cpp#778, Axel

Testing for expected crashes in both C++ and js, for printf checking

2015-02-17 Thread Axel Hecht
if the segments are in, or if it crashes [1]. So I'll need a .cpp core, and a wrapper that feeds it data and checks the output. Any suggestions on how to do that right? Axel [1] '%f' being the reference string, '%S' being the localization, pass in 5

Re: Deprecating localstore.rdf

2014-08-05 Thread Axel Hecht
localstore? --BDS How much of XUL templates with RDF do we support still? Never kept track of templates to start with :-/ Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: .properties and a single \u

2014-07-17 Thread Axel Hecht
://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1040019. Axel On 7/11/14 4:26 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: Hi, in .properties foo = some \unicode bar = some \a creates the most icky output. I'd like to get a defined behavior, but it turns out to be hard. Java: - dies with a parsing error on foo, bar is some

.properties and a single \u

2014-07-11 Thread Axel Hecht
great. What's your take? Axel cross-posting to .platform for xpcom, .tools.l10n for gaia's l10n.js ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Where is the document for jar.mn file format

2014-07-02 Thread Axel Hecht
is the place to look. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Spring cleaning: Reducing Number Footprint of HG Repos

2014-03-27 Thread Axel Hecht
it. It'll be web-based IDEs, which require good tooling and hosting to be on the same infrastructure. Axel *Non-User Repos* There are too many non-user repos. I'm not convinced we should host ash, oak, other project branches internally. I think we should focus on mission-critical repos only

Re: How to efficiently walk the DOM tree and its strings

2014-03-03 Thread Axel Hecht
the order. Something like You would think the a href=foofunkyness/a would strongrule/rule. could translate into strongRuling/strong would be the a href=foofunkyness/a, you would think. Are you intending to also localize tooltips and the like? Axel On 3/3/14, 8:28 PM, Felipe G wrote: Hi

Re: Changing how build automation interacts with the tree

2014-03-02 Thread Axel Hecht
of my brain into writing, I wish I had an hour-long video to go back and forth about stuff ;-) Axel On 2/28/14, 9:48 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: (This is likely off-topic for many dev-platform readers. I was advised to post here because RelEng monitors dev-platform and I don't like cross-posting

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: RDF 1.1

2014-01-14 Thread Axel Hecht
system. Axel On 1/14/14 11:04 PM, L. David Baron wrote: There are eight W3C Proposed Recommendations for RDF 1.1 (two of which are actually Proposed Edited Recommendations): RDF Schema 1.1: W3C Proposed Edited Recommendation 09 January 2014 http://www.w3.org/TR/rdf-schema/ RDF 1.1 XML Syntax

Re: A proposal to reduce the number of styles in Mozilla code

2014-01-06 Thread Axel Hecht
tools reformat code they don't understand, and break it. Trailing whitespace is significant in some of our file formats, for example. Axel On 1/6/14 6:55 PM, Martin Thomson wrote: I think that this is a good start, but it doesn’t go quite far enough. Part of the problem with a policy

Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: Performance Timeline, User Timing, JSON-LD

2013-11-27 Thread Axel Kratel
...@mit.edu, Axel Kratel akra...@mozilla.com, dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 8:51:32 AM Subject: Re: W3C Proposed Recommendations: Performance Timeline, User Timing, JSON-LD I’ve been aware of these proposals. Honestly, there’s not a lot of meat

Re: Add-on File Registration PRD

2013-11-04 Thread Axel Hecht
. But yes, I'll actually need to read the original post with l10n in mind. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Add-on File Registration PRD

2013-11-04 Thread Axel Hecht
, at least. Or at least be open to social engineering as much as dismissing a non-registered add-on UI. Axel On 10/30/13 10:55 PM, Jorge Villalobos wrote: Cross posting to dev.planning, where I originally intended this to be. Please follow up to dev.planning. Jorge On 10/30/13 3:42 PM

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-17 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/17/13 12:02 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: On 16/10/13 16:02, Axel Hecht wrote: We'll need to go down a path that works for Firefox OS. With Firefox OS, we don't have the download-size issue, do we? So we can ship all the data. Gerv We have issues with disk space, currently. We're

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-17 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/16/13 5:39 PM, Jeff Walden wrote: On 10/16/2013 02:10 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: I wonder how far we can get by doing something along the lines we use for webfonts, starting to do the best we can with the data we already have, and improve once the perfect data is local. Having the Intl.Foo

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-17 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/17/13 2:41 PM, Dao wrote: On 16.10.2013 17:02, Axel Hecht wrote: We'll need to go down a path that works for Firefox OS. [...] But, yes, I think we'll need a hosted service to provide that data on demand in the end. This sounds like a non-starter for mobile devices, doesn't

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-17 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/17/13 3:41 PM, Brian Smith wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 3:46 AM, Axel Hecht l...@mozilla.com wrote: We have issues with disk space, currently. We're already in the situation where all our keyboard data doesn't fit on quite a few of the devices out there. Where can one read more about

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-16 Thread Axel Hecht
something along the lines we use for webfonts, starting to do the best we can with the data we already have, and improve once the perfect data is local. I'm personally OK if this is a notification bar to reload, even. Axel PS: ICU is driven by js globalization api. That API was driven by MS

Re: Cost of ICU data

2013-10-16 Thread Axel Hecht
for 200 languages or somesuch. But, yes, I think we'll need a hosted service to provide that data on demand in the end. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-11 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/11/13 2:47 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller wrote: I'd be happy if we could progressively kill FileUtils.jsm and make nsIFile [noscript]. Don't know if this qualifies as platform feature, though. Cheers, David Both are heavily used in the js build system for gaia, fwiw. Axel

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-10 Thread Axel Hecht
is a good candidate for implementing it in JS. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-10 Thread Axel Hecht
On 10/10/13 2:43 PM, Jeff Walden wrote: On 10/10/2013 02:27 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: I agree with the sentiment, but not on the eample. Having been a peer of the XSLT module back in the days, we started with a rather js DOM like implementation, and moved over to a pure nsIContent etc impl

Re: What platform features can we kill?

2013-10-09 Thread Axel Hecht
rid of RDF, IIRC. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: No more Makefile.in boilerplate

2013-09-05 Thread Axel Hecht
Hi, out of curiousity, I recall that relativesrcdir was actually the trigger to switch on and off some l10n functionality in jar packaging. Is that now on everywhere? Axel On 9/5/13 2:34 AM, Mike Hommey wrote: Hi, Assuming it sticks, bug 912293 made it unnecessary to start Makefile.in

Re: Getting the current release version

2013-08-30 Thread Axel Hecht
migration at release minus a week and a day, i.e., we're migrating on Sept 9, and release on Sept 17: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ake...@mozilla.com/Release%20Management.html?view=monthdate=20130930 Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform

Re: Getting the current UI locale from C++

2013-08-29 Thread Axel Hecht
package is what I try to keep working at cost, notably on Android, where we're already doing stunts to do that. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Getting the current UI locale from C++

2013-08-29 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/29/13 3:17 PM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 1:48 PM, Axel Hecht l...@mozilla.com wrote: I'll read up on the other thread, and I still think the approach is wrong here, sorry. You'll have to explain that more fully I think. This is the current approach. However

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-13 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/13/13 8:05 AM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: On Fri, 09 Aug 2013 13:51:45 +0200, Axel Hecht wrote: To clarify, the tool does support either .name. or .name-list. at this point. Is there a code path or a setup where we have for any language/family both a .name. and a .name-list. entry? I.e. pref

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-13 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/9/13 5:28 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 9/8/13 15:36, Axel Hecht wrote: So I created three test cases based on the data I see, Greek and Bulgarian monospace and Hindi sans-serif. They're linked off of http://pike.github.io/fonts/. It's prerendered images on the left column, and regular

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-09 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/9/13 1:27 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 10:45 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 5:17 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 8/8/13 15:17, Axel Hecht wrote: Couter example seems to be Chinese, the unagi shows something, while my tool reports 13k

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-09 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/9/13 1:51 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: On 8/9/13 1:27 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 10:45 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 5:17 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 8/8/13 15:17, Axel Hecht wrote: Couter example seems to be Chinese, the unagi shows

Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-08 Thread Axel Hecht
in the dark, it'd be great if I could get some feedback and comments. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-08 Thread Axel Hecht
Hi Jonathan, thanks for the feedback, more inline. On 8/8/13 5:17 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 8/8/13 15:17, Axel Hecht wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a review of some rather hacky tool I just created to see if the fonts on b2g actually support a particular language. https://github.com/Pike/font

Re: Feedback wanted on font checker

2013-08-08 Thread Axel Hecht
On 8/8/13 10:45 PM, Karl Tomlinson wrote: Axel Hecht writes: On 8/8/13 5:17 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote: On 8/8/13 15:17, Axel Hecht wrote: Couter example seems to be Chinese, the unagi shows something, while my tool reports 13k missing glyphs for zh-TW. If we're using Droid Sans Fallback, I

Re: Three RDFa-related W3C Proposed (Edited) Recommendations

2013-07-17 Thread Axel Hecht
I've only quickly glanced at those, and I haven't followed those discussions at all, I have to admit. Are there any practical consequences for gecko/firefox? It doesn't look like it would, in particular when looking at the reference implementations being all on top of html platforms. Axel

Re: review stop-energy (was 24hour review)

2013-07-11 Thread Axel Hecht
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Re: Embracing git usage for Firefox/Gecko development?

2013-07-10 Thread Axel Hecht
better than a 1000 files in 20 dirs depth. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Embracing git usage for Firefox/Gecko development?

2013-07-10 Thread Axel Hecht
bugzilla integration, there are perl bindings that get modifications. I refuse to know perl good enough to make any statement on the value of the perl bindings, though. Axel On 5/31/13 2:56 AM, Johnny Stenback wrote: [TL;DR, I think we need to embrace git in addition to hg for Firefox/Gecko

Re: Replacing Gecko's URL parser

2013-07-10 Thread Axel Hecht
, that's not not idempotent. It's not round-tripping, but it looks like it's idempotent. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Replacing Gecko's URL parser

2013-07-10 Thread Axel Hecht
on how they work do we still have in mailnews' abuse of RDF? Not sure what's lurking in localstore.rdf and mimeTypes.rdf. Also, sorry, can't offer more help than asking these days. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org

Re: Geolocation and the Mac

2013-05-22 Thread Axel Hecht
geo location? We also make statements about our requirements on 3rd party location services in https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/legal/privacy/firefox.html. Depending on how mac locates, those may or may not hold? Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev

Re: Proposal for an inbound2 branch

2013-04-30 Thread Axel Hecht
of getting to a single revision that works out of multiple independent branches in a piece of software as big and modular as firefox has to be significant. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo

Re: Some data on mozilla-inbound

2013-04-23 Thread Axel Hecht
to know how much of that you can see in the data window you looked at. has been pushed to try is obviously tricky to find out, in particular on rebases, and possibly modified patches during the rebase. Axel Because of the large effect from coalescing, any changes to the current process must

Re: Some data on mozilla-inbound

2013-04-23 Thread Axel Hecht
On 4/23/13 6:35 PM, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: On 13-04-23 03:57 , Axel Hecht wrote: Do we know how many of these have been pushed to try, and passed/compiled what they'd fail later? I haven't looked at this. It would be useful to know but short of pulling patches and using some similarity

Nightly *very* crashy on OSX

2013-04-21 Thread Axel Hecht
AM bp-3dbd9606-7d63-4a90-957a-98f772130416 4/17/13 12:32 AM bp-2b7ac91d-1110-4780-9370-89a372130416 4/17/13 12:31 AM Any ideas? Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Decoupling the build config via moz.build files (nuking all.js)

2013-03-15 Thread Axel Hecht
and overrides typically should live. --BDS ... + firefox-l10n.js, for locale-specific settings. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-27 Thread Axel Hecht
On 27.02.13 09:30, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Axel Hecht l...@mozilla.com wrote: On 22.02.13 18:41, Henri Sivonen wrote: On Feb 22, 2013 5:30 PM, Axel Hecht l...@mozilla.com wrote: There's just no other way than post-mortem work. That's one of the reasons why

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-22 Thread Axel Hecht
, I'll follow up there. Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Review of changes to Web compat-sensitive prefs in localizations

2013-02-22 Thread Axel Hecht
filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=844042 before posting here (or at least around the same time). Axel ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Sparse localizations of toolkit and the chrome registry's getSelectedLocale()

2013-02-20 Thread Axel Hecht
On 12.02.13 22:12, Axel Hecht wrote: On 12.02.13 20:27, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: On 2/12/2013 12:41 PM, Axel Hecht wrote: Hi Benjamin, Dave, for mobile (and fxos) we're looking into doing sparse localizations of toolkit. The work on the mobile side is bug 792077. The current attempt

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