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

[Maksim Areshkau]

On 6/17/10 2:55 PM, Andersen Max wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2010, at 13:36, Maksim Areshkau wrote:
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>> Andersen Max wrote:
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>>> what can I do to get my jboss tool checkout having a working VPE right now ?
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>> https://svn.jboss.org/repos/jbosstools/workspace/mareshkau/xulrunner-1.9.2
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>>> 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.
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> I mean - do we know about a bug/discussion on eclipse.org or mozilla ?
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I haven't find in firefox bugzilla, so I have created one
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572677
> /max
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>>> /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
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>>>> 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?
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>>>> Denis
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>>>> -- 
>>>> Maksim Areshkau
>>>> <api-difference.html>
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