[rfc][icedtea-web] Stop supporting old version of NPAPI for 1.4

[Adam Domurad]

On 04/08/2013 07:56 AM, Jiri Vanek wrote:
> On 04/03/2013 06:20 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
>> On 07/13/2012 04:14 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2012-07-12 at 17:20 -0400, Omair Majid wrote:
>>>> On 07/12/2012 05:08 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
>>>>> Hi. This was briefly discussed with Deepak, and by the time 1.4 is
>>>>> released, there will be no need to support the versions of firefox 
>>>>> that
>>>>> have the old api.
>>>> Could you tell us what versions are these? What about other browsers
>>>> that we care about?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Omair
>>> Sorry, replied off-list. Resent.
>>>
>>> Hi Omair. This affects API versions <1.9, and only affects Firefox <4.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Ping ? Think this would help maintainability going forward.
>> -Adam
>
>
> Around and around this looks good. But I'm hesitating for 1.4 with 
> it... I would rather save this patch for head after branching.

I disagree. If we hold off on it, we accept a backport burden for no 
reason -- we never compile with this support. The binary should be 
exactly the same.

>
> Thank yo for  looking into it.
>
> J.

Thanks,
-Adam