197458 - [blue sky] move migration code work out from mozilla/profile and into applications (like mozilla/mailnews)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(MailNews Core :: Profile Migration, defect)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

[blue sky] move migration code work out from mozilla/profile and into
applications (like mozilla/mailnews)

I'm sure we all would like to see the day that our other bugs are fixed and we
could get to this.

but still worth putting in bugzilla.

alecf writes:

"Really I think the whole upgrader service needs a hook to allow plugged-in
applications like mail to do their own upgrading...i.e. all the code to copy
over .na2 files should be in the mozilla or possibly even the commercial
tree...might I suggest a category-based approach where the upgrader instantiates
all members of a category and calls them on some well known interface?"

ccarlen writes:

"I like the idea of breaking up migration to where it's needed. As Alec
suggested, use category manager to instantiate the interested parties, and then
QI to an API which allowed a 2-phase approach: (1) compute needed data size, and
(2) migrate it."

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

you may call this blue sky, but I call it footprint work for phoenix.. phoenix
shouldn't have to migrate mail stuff..

Comment 2

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 3

[Serge Gautherie (:sgautherie)]

Filter on "Nobody_NScomTLD_20080620"

Comment 4

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

AFAIK Thunderbird and SeaMonkey have no application specific migration routines in the mozilla-central profile/ directory. Therefore this bug (as best as I can work out from it) needs nothing doing.