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Date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 11:59:25 +0200
From: "Gijs Kruitbosch (\"Hannibal\")" <gijskruitbo...@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: interface stability policy on 1.8 branch
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Brendan Eich wrote:
 > XUL extensions could use lots of things, but I don't know of any that
 > depend on JSFunctionSpec.  Is there a way to search AMO easily?  How
 > many extensions hosted at AMO or extension-mirror.nl (or whatever it's
 > called) even contain compiled code?
 >
 > /be

I think there are a fair few, and to make matters worse, no 
'open-sourceness' is forced. I don't want to debate the whole 
ideological thing** but the fact that you can't peek at the source for 
the compiled components will make it harder to search it. I mean, right 
now I'm certain that there is no way to do that, and I'm thinking that 
making such a way exist for extensions would be a 'hard' problem.

-- Gijs

** so please, no replies from whoever else reads this concerning that, 
make a different topic in a more relevant group iff you absolutely must...