[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] auto-generating minversion/maxversion [Was: Re: Bug#641901: RFP: xul-ext-uppity -- toolbar button to "go up" on the web]

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

On 09/19/2011 12:19 AM, Paul Wise wrote:
> I'm starting to think that the minversion/maxversion should be generated
> at build time based on the APIs used by the plugin.

Is this doable?  Has mozilla published a list of APIs that they're
committed to providing stable and backward-compatible support for with
version-specific detail?

Can we extract the specific APIs used from the .xpi?

These problems are pretty well-solved in the C library world, but they
require a lot of infrastructure and commitments to sane development
practices.  I'd be happy to hear that their parallels existed in the
mozilla extension development world, but if they do exist, i don't know
about them.

Please show me i'm wrong! :)

	--dkg

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