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

[Jiri Vanek]

On 04/11/2013 03:21 PM, Adam Domurad wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok then. You and ptisnovs are to strong to me to hold this back. Go freely on:)
>>
>> Thank yo for  looking into it.
>>
>> J.
>
> Thanks,
> -Adam