1717947 - Remove support for brotli streams in Jar archives

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: Networking: JAR, task)

Comment 1

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Bug 1717947 - Remove support for brotli streams in Jar archives.

This was added in bug 1355661, has been kept Nightly-only since then,
and was only used briefly for omni.ja, and eventually we switched
compression off entirely on omni.ja. If we ever switch compression on
again on omni.ja, it would likely be with zstd, which is much faster
on the compression side.

Comment 2

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Bug 1717947 - Remove packager support for brotli in Jars.

This was added ing bug 1352595. It has only been used briefly, and we
since then have gone all the way to never compress omni.ja. Even if we
did go back to compressing, we'd probably go with zstd rather than
brotli.
The gecko-side support for this has only ever been nightly-only.

Comment 3

[Mike Hommey [:glandium]]

Attachment: Bug 1717947 - Don't build the brotli host program.

We now have no use for it. Remove the corresponding source, which we
added in bug 1355671 just for this.

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/1d1f1d413aee
Remove support for brotli streams in Jar archives. r=valentin
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/97f4820bdb02
Remove packager support for brotli in Jars. r=firefox-build-system-reviewers,nalexander
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/23c261d45df2
Don't build the brotli host program. r=firefox-build-system-reviewers,nalexander

Comment 5

[Cristian Brindusan [:cbrindusan]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1d1f1d413aee
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/97f4820bdb02
https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/23c261d45df2