871071 - prefs.py refactor follow-up to bug 838273

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Testing :: Mozbase, defect)

Description

[Jeff Hammel]

see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=838273#c4

  - add should take a path string and add via read() and deprecate
    add_file
  - __iadd__ alias to add
  - read should be fixed:
    - currently it does not handle the normal prefs.js case; it
    should!
    - it should try initially the method that matches the file/url
      extension
    - for this reason and other extensibility, the readers should be
    classes
    - do we want to support .ini format? i don't know of a use-case

Obviously these are all my opinion.  I do not know the priority here
or what others would desire/require to do.

Comment 1

[Geoff Brown [:gbrown]]

Mass closing bugs with no activity in 2+ years. If this bug is important to you, please re-open.