1614237 - Remove legacy API

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: Add-Ons: General, task)

Description

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

We don't intend to still have the legacy API at the next ESR, and the time has come to remove it.

Comment 1

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: 1614237-remove-legacy-1.diff

This removes the API but I think it would be helpful to have all extensions using the API disabled automatically somehow. The best way would be for authors to mark their extensions as incompatible after 73, but that is never going to happen. We could mark them all as incompatible on ATN but I'm not sure if that would actually result in Thunderbird disabling them (I think we should do it anyway). I'm going to look at some ways we could do it in Thunderbird itself.

Comment 2

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Attachment: 1614237-remove-legacy-2.diff

Found some more things to remove.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

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1614237-remove-legacy-2.diff

Review of attachment 9125377 [details] [diff] [review]:
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LGTM, I'm sure we'll find even more eventually. r=mkmelin

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/3f3fc2c0d804
Remove legacy extensions API. r=mkmelin

Comment 5

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

I decided to push this without any extension disabling mechanism for now, so that there's at least one Daily build for users before the code moves to comm-beta.

Comment 6

[Óvári]

Sieve add-on
https://github.com/thsmi/sieve/issues/171#issuecomment-586625099