Am 24.04.2017 um 22:32 Uhr schrieb Ludovic Marcotte ([email protected]):
On 2017-04-24 11:55 AM, Florian Unger ([email protected]) wrote:
I am a bit concerned about the future of Thunderbird.
The road map of Mozilla development will drop support for XUL/XPCOM
based extensions, which will also affect the sogo-connector and
sogo-integrator addons.
It will also badly break Lightning - which is more worrisome than our
SOGo extensions. Lightning relies a lot on XPCOM because of libical but
there's a rewrite of the iCalendar handling library in JS
(https://github.com/mozilla-comm/ical.js/).
All this seems to cause a lot of turmoil in the developer community. I
read of plans to do a complete rewrite of Thunderbird as
"Thunderbird++"...
I won't hold my breath on this :-)
I wonder what are the plans of the sogo team for this are
* what is the road map of SOGo? Were will you go?
* will you continue to support Thunderbird?
* are there alternatives to Thunderbird in the Windows universe
(except Outlook) that escaped my search?
* will it be possible to port the sogo-connector and sogo-integrator
addons to the upcoming webextensions API or is this too restrictive?
While I haven't personally looked into this too much, our extensions
relies more on Lightning's code than anything else. I think the porting
effort will be reasonable once/if Lightning gets done.
from the TB Enterprise list (Philipp Kewisch):
"Thunderbird will continue to support XUL/XPCOM as long as possible.
While we do need to look into new APIs and ways on how we can support
add-ons in a sustainable way, we are not following the same pace and
plan that Firefox is. As Thunderbird is using the Mozilla platform,
there will eventually be an incompatible change. But that said, XUL and
XPCOM is a very integral part of the Mozilla Platform, so it will take a
longer time until it is actually removed."
Marc
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