From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de>
Cc: 29859@debbugs.gnu.org, Daniel Colascione <dan.colascione@gmail.com>
Subject: bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2020 08:31:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkm=wJiGKoFXY4FLq1XV5CYXcPudJPCZUUy0vvaF-R_F1SA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87373xfgnx.fsf@passepartout.tim-landscheidt.de> (Tim Landscheidt's message of "Tue, 26 Dec 2017 19:11:30 +0000")
Tim Landscheidt <tim@tim-landscheidt.de> writes:
> Firefox 57 ("Quantum") removed the possibility to install
> extensions à la MozRepl
> (https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/mozrepl/). To
> quote MozRepl's README.md (https://github.com/bard/mozrepl):
>
> | Important Notice
>
> | Key technologies upon which MozRepl depends will be retired
> | from the Mozilla platform in November 2017. If you are re-
> | lying on MozRepl, please investigate migration paths. The
> | last known compatible version is Firefox 54.
>
> | […]
>
> The current Firefox ESR release is based on Firefox 52 and
> should allow MozRepl to be installed until August 2018
> (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/organizations/), but
> I did not test that.
>
> Thus the large code section in lisp/progmodes/js.el relating
> to MozRepl is unfortunately no longer useful and could be
> removed now or in September 2018 at the latest. (Personal
> guess: Nobody is using Emacs with Firefox ESR, so removing
> it from the next release would not hurt anyone.)
So I guess we could mark this functionality as obsolete in Emacs 28.1.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-10 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-26 19:11 bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful Tim Landscheidt
2017-12-27 11:10 ` Charles A. Roelli
2017-12-27 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-10 15:31 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-08-10 15:34 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-08-12 13:10 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 13:15 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-08-12 14:05 ` Phil Sainty
2020-08-12 14:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 14:28 ` Colin Baxter
2020-08-12 16:00 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 16:37 ` Colin Baxter
2020-08-12 16:44 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-08-13 6:02 ` Colin Baxter
2020-08-13 9:18 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-08-13 9:40 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-13 9:42 ` Dmitry Gutov
2020-08-12 14:33 ` Phil Sainty
2020-08-12 15:59 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-08-12 13:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-21 15:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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