114658 - clean up embedcomponents, appshell, appcomps, mozbrwsr

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Embedding: APIs, defect, P2)

Description

[Alec Flett]

Right now we have a bunch of dlls which have a bunch of somewhat related
components in them: 
embedcomponents
appshell
appcomps
mozxfer
mozfind
mozbrwsr
shistory
webbrwsr

That's 8 dlls! We need to consolidate these into 3 dlls:
Browser-only
Embedding-only
Browser/Embedding, shared

We might want to split the last dll into "shared" and "shared, extended" where
the "shared, extended" dll contains extra features that embeddors MIGHT want,
but the browser definitely needs. The Embedding-only dll is likely to be pretty
small.

I went through the XPCOM module declarations for each module and determined
everything that was in each one, and then tried to guess at who really needed
each component.

Browser-only
-------
appshell: about ?? (about: or about:mozilla?)
appshell: user info
appshell: timing service
appshell: Mac: MacMIME
appshell: Mac: InternetConfig
appshell: commandline service
appshell: window mediator
appcomps: autocomplete
appcomps: bookmarks
appcomps: directory viewer
appcomps: local search, internet search
appcomps: related links
appcomps: font package handler (maybe not?)
appcomps: Win: UrlWidget
appcomps: LDAP autocomplete
appcomps: global history (unless they want our impl?)
mozxfer: file transfer? (embeddor said they need it?)
mozbrwsr: nsBrowserInstance

Embedding-only
---------
webbrwsr: nsWebBrowser?
webbrwsr: nsWebBrowserContentPolicy?
webbrwsr: nsCommandHandler?
embedcomp: find??
embedcomp: webbrowser persist?

Shared
------
mozfind: find in page
shistory: session history
appshell: appshell service (includes nsWebShellWindow, contenttreeowner,
chrometreeowner)
embedcomp: appstartup
embedcomp: dialog param block
embedcomp: prompt service
embedcomp: js console
embedcomp: window watcher

Comment 1

[Alec Flett]

cc'ing random, possibly interested parties. This is not something I have time
for right now.. however for performance/bloat I wonder if someone else might be
interested in tackling this :)

Comment 2

[Dave Barrowman]

topembed- per EDT triage.

Comment 3

[Alec Flett]

woah, 1.1 came up quick. Throwing these bugs over to 1.2.. little or no work has
been done and there is no way that these bugs can be fixed in 1.1.

Comment 4

[Alec Flett]

mozilla 1.2alpha is more or less done. moving mozilla 1.2alpha bugs out to
mozilla 1.2beta

Comment 5

[Alec Flett]

too much work for 1.2. moving out to 1.3.

Comment 6

[Alec Flett]

Furturing bugs that keep getting knocked from milestone to milestone...if you
feel this is in error, please nominate this bug using the appropriate keyword.

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Marking a bunch of bugs in the "Embedding: APIs" component INCOMPLETE in preparation to archive that component. If I have done this incorrectly, please reopen the bugs and move them to a more correct component as we don't have "embedding" APIs any more.