647273 - Remove nsIContentUtils

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect)

Description

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

Now that non-libxul builds are unsupported, my understanding is that nsIContentUtils doesn't serve a useful purpose and can be removed.

Comment 1

[Kyle Huey (Exited; not receiving bugmail, old account, do not use)]

And nsIContentUtils2, and maybe nsIContentUtils3 if we managed to grow that ...

But yes, as long as the interface was only to allow it to be used cross-module (and there are no script consumers) you can scrap it.

Comment 2

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: Patch v1

How does this look to you, Jonas?

Comment 3

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: Patch v2

Unbitrotting after removal of a MOZILLA_2_0 interface.

Comment 4

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

Attachment: Patch v3

Removing nsLayoutModule entries, which I initially missed.

Comment 5

[(no longer active)]

This landed:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/457757151653

and broke Windows builds:

http://tinderbox.mozilla.org/showlog.cgi?log=Firefox/1302810160.1302813617.29925.gz

and got backed out as a result:

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/026fc72b77aa

Comment 6

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

So the problem is TestChromeMargin.cpp, a Windows only cpp test.  It tests a function in ns{I}ContentUtils.

If you include nsContentUtils.h directly, you end up including enough of the world that you need to be in the internal API world.  But I can't figure out how to get this unit test into that world.  Apparently you can't just #define MOZILLA_INTERNAL_API and expect things to work.  :)

jimm or someone else: Any ideas on how to fix this?  I'd really hate to hold this bug up on a test technicality.

Comment 7

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

On IRC, jimm gave me r+ to disable widget/tests/TestChromeMargin.cpp.  I'll file a followup bug to fix and re-enable the test.

Comment 8

[Justin Lebar (not reading bugmail)]

Pushed with misbehaving test disabled: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/863db843fde4