107059 - remove rdf requirements from embedding

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: RDF, defect, P3)

Description

[Alec Flett]

There are 2-3 major spots where we're requiring RDF for an embedding build. This
bug will track them. A few that I know about:
1) XUL template stuff - kind of irrelevant if you don't use XUL, but as we don't
have the NO_XUL flag working yet, it is still a build-time dependency
2) nsWindowMediator - uses lots of RDF, it's unclear how much is required.

That's all I know off the top of my head.

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

The only ones that are interesting to us are: (from REQUIRES lines)

appcomps -> rdf;
  not sure how important appcomps is
appshell -> rdf;
  this is at least for nsWindowWatcher - we need a non-rdf implementation
chrome -> rdf;
  not sure embedding needs chrome
content -> rdf;
  for xul templates
content_xul -> rdf;
  for xul templates
exthandler -> rdf;
  unclear what to do here - not sure how important exthandler is to embedding..
possible that we should move exthandler into appcomps
history -> rdf;
  there's another bug on this somewhere, but we're not really expecting
embeddors to use our history implementation
layout_xul -> rdf;
  this is for xul templates
uriloader -> rdf;
  this is because of the exthandler dependency above

Given the hugeness of this, moving out a milestone so I can focus on simpler things.

Comment 2

[Alec Flett]

bad news: gotta move these bugs to 0.9.9, I have too much on my plate right now.

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

this is a tracking bug, and there's no way we can finish the two dependent bugs
by 1.0 :( moving out

Comment 4

[Alec Flett]

an update:
appcomps -> rdf;
  appcomps is not part of the embedding build
history -> rdf;
  really part of appcomps, but the bug in question is bug 71481
appshell -> rdf;
  just waiting on reviews see bug 132175
chrome -> rdf;
  I'll be doing a minimal chrome reg in bug 119923
content -> rdf;
content_xul -> rdf;
layout_xul -> rdf;
  for xul templates - no progress here, probably safe for now but engineering
fix will be hard
exthandler -> rdf;
uriloader -> rdf;
  unclear what to do here - not sure how important exthandler is to embedding..
possible that we should move exthandler into appcomps. also, chimera wants
helper app support, so maybe this needs to move to something that chimera can
use, but embedding doesn't need.

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

moving bugs to mozilla 1.2alpha that missed 1.1beta

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

pushing a few bugs out to 1.2beta - too much stuff on my 1.2alpha plate!

Comment 7

[Alec Flett]

unfortunately RDF is too ingrained in the chrome registry right now to be able
to fix this for 1.2. Moving out to 1.3, which will require a change to the
chrome registry format, probably to some sort of "contents.txt" solution.

Comment 8

[Alec Flett]

*** Bug 194295 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 9

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Please see embedding/minimo/chromelite which no longer requires RDF and is a
complete replacement of chrome and the chrome registry.  We should eventually
merge this work and what you have been doing.