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

[Andersen Max]

On Jun 17, 2010, at 13:36, Maksim Areshkau wrote:

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> Andersen Max wrote:
>> what can I do to get my jboss tool checkout having a working VPE right now ?   
> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/workspace/mareshkau/xulrunner-1.9.2
>> do we have a bug open somewhere for the different APIs ? This must surely be some big oversight?
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> I have commented this one, https://jira.jboss.org/browse/JBIDE-6429
> For now this problems resolved by using interfaces es common for all platforms.

I mean - do we know about a bug/discussion on eclipse.org or mozilla ?

/max

>> /max
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>> On Jun 16, 2010, at 23:14, Maxim Areshkau wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>>> 2010/6/16 Denis Golovin <dgolovin at exadel.com>
>>> I've seen this in IRC log
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>>> 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>
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