Mozilla is dropping XPCOM binary support on Firefox 40

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Mozilla is dropping XPCOM binary support on Firefox 40 #24

Open AntoineTurmel opened 9 years ago

AntoineTurmel commented 9 years ago

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2015/05/04/dropping-support-for-binary-components/

This means everything in /platform need to be replaced using the addon SDK “system/child_process”

MickBim commented 9 years ago

Et c'est compliqué à faire ?

AntoineTurmel commented 9 years ago

A voir...

YoruNoHikage commented 9 years ago

There's already the ctypes alternative in the source code even if :

If this is not sufficient, JS-ctypes may be an alternative mechanism to use shared libraries, but this API is much more fragile and it’s easy to write unsafe code.

https://github.com/AntoineTurmel/echofon-firefox-unofficial/blob/master/modules/EchofonSign.jsm#L178