610507 - Get rid of the nsjetpack package

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

The nsjetpack package contained in packages/nsjetpack isn't being used anymore; it hasn't been compiled for firefox 4, and odds are that changing it to work with firefox 4 would be either difficult or pointless, depending on the functionality. The "flexible membrane" functionality in it is mostly useless given the addition of JS Proxies to SpiderMonkey, and the memory profiling functionality likely needs to be changed a lot to work with JS compartments. Furthermore, even finding memory leaks using the profiler in firefox 3.6 was problematic given bug 592180.

So we're probably just best removing the code from the tree for now, and bringing it back later if and when we decide to revamp the memory profiling code to work with the latest version of Gecko.

Comment 1

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

The Add-on SDK is no longer a Mozilla Labs experiment and has become a big enough project to warrant its own Bugzilla product, so the "Add-on SDK" product has been created for it, and I am moving its bugs to that product.

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Comment 2

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

Attachment: Pointer to pull request

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/68b6e306dfeccef103b071e0812dc3a375830ac0

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/715cb47c720bcdd11846cae6c6cab325bb1a982b

https://github.com/mozilla/addon-sdk/commit/0e23d1c1555d5de228ed7ad62c8715e2775d2390