Old Plugin Status

[Andrew John Hughes]

On 15 March 2010 15:43, Deepak Bhole <dbhole at redhat.com> wrote:
> * Andrew John Hughes <ahughes at redhat.com> [2010-03-12 08:36]:
>> Are we still planning to include the old plugin with IcedTea6 1.8?
>>
>> I, for one, can no longer even build it on my main machine, as I've
>> upgraded to XULRunner 1.9.2.
>>
>> Does anyone still need it over NPPlugin?
>
> I don't think we should ship the older plugin with 1.8. It is pretty
> much unmaintained outside of security and critical bugs. It would be
> nice to just move to NP.
>

I agree; as I say, it's difficult for me to test it now so that's
going to cause further bit-rot.

I'll give others until this time tomorrow to yell out, and then I'll
remove it from HEAD.  It will, of course, still be retained in earlier
release branches.

> Cheers,
> Deepak
>
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