1451993 - Remove `mach uuid`

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1639509

(Firefox Build System :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Pretty sure nobody uses this.

We added this back in bug 893830 at a time when developers needed to provide UUIDs for interfaces. The requirement disappeared I want to say 2-3 years ago. But the mach command persisted.

Comment 1

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Attachment: Bug 1451993 - Remove `mach uuid`;

Because a UUID is a terrible thing to waste.

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/234346/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/234346/

Comment 2

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

Comment on attachment 8965554 [details]
Bug 1451993 - Remove `mach uuid`;

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/234346/#review240174

Are we certain nobody uses this? I used it yesterday (prompting my tweet about UUIDs!) when I was writing a test that required me to register an XPCOM component factory.

The removal itself looks fine - nice and isolated. Should we send mail to dev-platform about the removal?

Anyhow, I'll ultimately leave the decision to you though, being master of all things mach! :)