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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">How hard would it be to script in a
tool that will sniff out and flag usage of deprecated interfaces?
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The documentation over the past months has mostly been "this is
removed, use this instead". I do not see this changing a lot in
the next release cycle and more XUL stuff disappears and more web
API's become available to replace them. Having a script that
could scan the code and identify the items in that list of
chenges. Perhaps even anotate the code with developer links to
comments would I guess make the process of updating abandoned
add-ons by adoptive authors more likely. Not having any idea of
the quantum of effort required is perhaps one of the barriers to
others adopting the abandoned.<br>
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But I am not an add-on author, so I will leave the discussion to
those that have actual experience on the ground. But I would like
to see the barriers to successfully getting an add-on off the
ground to be significantly lowered. I look at VbScript and how
simple it is to start to extend Microsoft applications with simple
interface stuff and then I look to Mozilla and by extension
Thunderbird. One is designed to encourage, the other expects a
high level of technical skills and background. Dabblers not
welcome Is the sign on the door.<br>
<br>
Matt<br>
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On 30-Aug-19 12:30 AM, Axel Grude wrote:<br>
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<p>And here I was getting my hopes up :)</p>
<p>Anyway it would be cool if there was a validation tool that
just scans the code for keywords / used xpcom interface that
we could use; using some diligence, a list to the said article
would in many cases be enough for us Add-on devs to fix it
ourselves.</p>
<p>I always think just having the validation scanner during
Add-on upload as a separate tool /website would already be an
immense help.</p>
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<b>Subject:</b>Re: Automatically fixing addons for new
Thunderbird versions (was: Re: Donations for the Provider
for Google Calendar ...)<br>
<b>From:</b>Jörg Knobloch <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:jorgk@jorgk.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><jorgk@jorgk.com></a><br>
<b>To:</b><a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="mailto:tb-planning@mozilla.org"
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<b>Sent: </b>Thursday, 8/29/2019, 15:44 15:44 GMT DT +0100
[Week 35]<br>
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cite">On 29 Aug 2019 15:27, Ben Bucksch wrote: <br>
<blockquote type="cite" id="Cite_7057757" class=" cite">If there
are mechanical, scripted or very simple ride-alone changes
that are applied to the whole code tree, then I think it would
be good for the TB project to apply these to the addons as
well. <br>
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Sadly that's wishful thinking. <br>
<br>
A small fraction if those "bustage" fixes are s/xxx/yyy/. And
even that we don't know that we're not hitting AAxxxBB. <br>
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Most changes are much more involved. M-C is removing interfaces,
turning sync calls into async calls. <br>
<br>
Take a look at <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/updates/tb68"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://developer.thunderbird.net/add-ons/updates/tb68</a>
to see how unfeasible this suggestion is. <br>
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Jörg. <br>
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