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bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Aug 2020 08:31:54 -0700 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
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
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful,
Stefan Kangas <=
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/08/10
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Stefan Kangas, 2020/08/12
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/08/12
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Phil Sainty, 2020/08/12
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Stefan Kangas, 2020/08/12
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Colin Baxter, 2020/08/12
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Stefan Kangas, 2020/08/12
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Colin Baxter, 2020/08/12
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Dmitry Gutov, 2020/08/12
- bug#29859: 25.3; MozRepl support is/will be no longer useful, Colin Baxter, 2020/08/13