Re: The future of binary embedding

On 4/7/11 9:29 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> Benjamin,
>
> 1) I'm unclear of the impacts of removing gtkmozembed.  Can you please clarify which APIs and functionality will be impacted?  For example, will XRE_InitEmbedding go away with these near-term changes?
gtkmozembed is the code in embedding/browser/gtk and primarily the 
functions in gtkmozembed.h. XRE_InitEmbedding is not affected.
> 2) I too rebuild mozilla for a special xulrunner application that plays nicely with legacy gtk+/wx applications to provide an embedded browser.  However, I utilize a wrapper for my access - wxWebConnect which is supported by Kirix:
>
> http://www.kirix.com/labs/wxwebconnect.html
>
> Will the changes you identify here impact that project and the apis/utilities they use?
I don't know, that depends on how they do their embedding. But of 
course, if they use gtkmozembed, they can import that code and continue 
to use and maintain it.
> 3) What is the timeframe for these changes?
Immediately for Firefox 5.

--BDS