1201710 - Decide how to handle external libs post file migration

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: General, task, P3)

Description

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Some external libs won't be following the "require match source tree path" rule even after bug 912121, including:

* glci
* acorn
* tern
* sourcemap

We should decide how to handle this, and makes changes if needed.

Comment 1

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

As discussed a bit in bug 1216657 and elsewhere, a real solution for vendor modules that looks them up by their "usual" short name from a well-known directory would be great.

As long as there is no manually curated list of paths, we'll be much better off here.

Comment 2

[Jan Honza Odvarko [:Honza] (always need-info? me)]

Alex, is this still relevant?

Honza

Comment 3

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

Not super imporant, but still relevant.
This is about the shortcut for require path of some modules:
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/devtools/shared/Loader.jsm#55-58