614720 - [Meta] Remove support for WinCE/Windows Mobile

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Tracking, defect)

Description

[Matheus Kerschbaum]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101124 Firefox/4.0b8pre
Build Identifier: 

See Bug 600714 comment 0.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Seems weird to remove WinCE support before we're sure we won't be able to do a Windows Phone 7 port.

Comment 2

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

I think there are some places that I don't mind removing (like the ddraw bits), but a huge removal of wince might be an overkill.

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Adding bug 386760, since the rewrite there removes all of the old WinCE updater code.

(In reply to comment #1)
> Seems weird to remove WinCE support before we're sure we won't be able to do a
> Windows Phone 7 port.

(In reply to comment #2)
> I think there are some places that I don't mind removing (like the ddraw bits),
> but a huge removal of wince might be an overkill.

I would have thought that even if MS finally release a Windows Phone 7 NDK, and even if the decision is made to port to it; the platform changes will be significant enough compared to WinCE 6 that most of the current WinCE specific code would be redundant anyway? (Especially given that a lot of it is ancient hackery working around older WinCE OS/compiler bugs and limitations, which one would hope would no longer exist on Windows Phone 7...or at least in different forms?)

Comment 4

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

In the case of the updater (bug 386760), it would likely just work with Windows Phone 7 and there wouldn't be new API's. I mainly removed it because it was difficult to support WinCE/WinMo while optimizing the code. I suspect it will be the same eslewhere as well.

Comment 5

[Nelson Bolyard (seldom reads bugmail)]

Is Fennec dead?

Comment 6

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Is Fennec dead?

No, Fennec is the code name for the mobile version of Firefox, which is being actively developed for Maemo and Android (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec), so Fennec itself isn't dead.

What is being discussed here is WinCE/Windows Mobile platform support, which was the initial platform for Fennec, but is no longer supported by it - thanks to Microsoft's decision to not release an NDK for Windows Phone 7 (http://blog.pavlov.net/2010/03/22/stopping-development-for-windows-mobile/).

Comment 7

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Removing dependency on bug 622840, since the WinCE removal parts have landed (http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/98ef084ded47) even though the rest of the bug was backed out / reopened.

Closing this meta now, since the only remaining instances of:
WINCE
WIN32_WCE 
MOZ_CE
WINMO
...are in upstream code, including NSPR (WONTFIX) & NSS (being dealt with in bug 654611); so nothing left to do here.