648664 - Create an MDC page listing all known XPCOM interface changes from Firefox 4 to 5

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: Extension Compatibility, defect, P1)

Description

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

By the time the Aurora branch is created for Firefox 5, the Add-ons team needs to have a very clear idea of which changes are going to affect add-on developers. We need a public page (preferably on MDC) that lists all XPCOM interface changes that have been introduced for Firefox 5. We can then identify which add-ons won't need any changes to be compatible and bump them up automatically.

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I'm not sure we're going to have a *complete* list by Tuesday, but I can certainly list out the major ones I know of. Mossop, can you do an interface comparison run also and attach it here?

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Attachment: changed idl files since GECKO_2_0_BASE

Might be able to do something more detailed before the branch, not sure though. For now this is just a list of the files that changed in some way, unfortunately it includes file moves.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Attachment: interface changes

I tinkered with the code I wrote in bug 477166 to get it running again and this is the difference between Firefox 4.0 and the current aurora builds. I haven't touched that code in a while but I suspect it is still accurate. There are lots of interfaces that only got their IID changed from bug 604592