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Benjamin Smedberg  
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 More options May 20 2008, 4:48 pm
Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 16:48:28 -0400
Local: Tues, May 20 2008 4:48 pm
Subject: Re: What's next after Firefox 3 and Gecko 1.9?
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Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Mike Shaver wrote:
>> We should _break_ as few APIs as possible, but no fewer.  Additive
>> changes to unfrozen APIs should be looked at with a kind eye

> Does that mean no revving the iid for such changes (just adds a method
> to the end of the vtable) on the branch?  Otherwise we get binary
> extension issues no matter what, right?

I don't think we're optimizing for binary extensions, but rather for JS
usage: the fewer JS extensions we break in this short cycle, the better off
we are (of course, the same rule applies in general!)

--BDS


 
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