[jbosstools-dev] XULRunner 1.9.2 XPCOM is different for each platform

[Andersen Max]

what can I do to get my jboss tool checkout having a working VPE right now ? 

do we have a bug open somewhere for the different APIs ? This must surely be some big oversight?
/max

On Jun 16, 2010, at 23:14, Maxim Areshkau wrote:

> Hi,
> see attachment.
> We have extracted common interfaces for all platforms and placed as source files into org,mozilla.xpcom plugin https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/workspace/mareshkau/xulrunner-1.9.2/org.mozilla.xpcom/
> So Now we have working VPE under Mac OS X, Linux and Windows. But Junit still crashes see this one https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=315588
> Before this I have tried to use jars from linux sdk under mac and it caused a crash of eclipse(https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=316872). I think because have occurred some native calls which not supported for osx.
> 
> 
> 2010/6/16 Denis Golovin <dgolovin at exadel.com>
> I've seen this in IRC log
> 
> 12:49:55 AM) maxandersen: mareshkau: soon means when ? :)
> (12:50:08 AM) mareshkau: I think by the end of this week
> (12:50:32 AM) maxandersen: will we need to split out the jar plugin in os specific osgi bundles?
> (12:54:02 AM) mareshkau: We have java sources from xpcom, so #1 we will try to create our own xpcom.jar with common api jar-s for all platforms.
> (12:54:02 AM) mareshkau: #2 if #1 will not work, than split out the jar plugin in os specific osgi bundles
> (12:56:22 AM) maxandersen: why not just do the split ?
> (12:59:02 AM) mareshkau: because api will be different and somebody possibly can use windows function and broke compilation
> 
> Why wouldn't we just create fragments for xpcom plugin with platform related code and include it to xulrunner feature instead of trying to fix something in our code?
> What is different in API?
> 
> Denis
> 
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> -- 
> Maksim Areshkau
> <api-difference.html>