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

[Jérémy Bobbio]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 01:35:41AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-09-19 at 13:15 -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> 
> > Is this doable?
> 
> I haven't the faintest idea about that.
> 
> Based on a quick look at the code for uppity it doesn't look like there
> is anything useful for this, so perhaps it is a pipe dream...
> 
> ...but perhaps we need to approach this from another angle. This is a
> problem both inside and outside of Debian, so why not solve it upstream?

They decided to unfreeze every XPCOM API starting with
Gecko 2 (Firefox 4) :
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XPCOM/XPCOM_changes_in_Gecko_2.0

From what I know, the useful source of information on compatibility is
now those pages:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_4_for_developers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_5_for_developers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_6_for_developers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_7_for_developers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_8_for_developers
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Firefox_9_for_developers

I was unable to find a machine readable equivalent. Javascript behind a
very dynamic language, I don't know how a realistic automatic version
inference could be done…

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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