Re: Porting my JS45 code to ESR52

Paul Bone <[email protected]> Wed, 27 Sep 2017 07:51:55 +1000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.jseng
Message-ID <20170926215153.GA28651@fluorine>
On Tue, Sep 26, 2017 at 05:00:06PM +0900, ISHIKAWA,chiaki wrote:
> On 2017/09/26 14:24, Paul Bone wrote:
> >On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 03:36:24PM -0500, Kent Williams wrote:
> >>I have a working application embedding SpiderMonkey ESR45.  I am working on
> >>updating it to ESR52.
> >>
> >>What I'm discovering is that the API documentation is out of date. For
> >>instance JS_ReportError is apparently removed from the API, and if I look in
> >>the headers, it's replaced by a bunch of character-set-specific
> >>JS_ReportError functions (JS_ReportErrorASCII, JS_ReportErrorUTF8, etc).
> >>
> >>But there's no documentation on any of the new functions.
> >>
> >>Am I looking the wrong place for documentation, or is the documentation
> >>available on line simply not going to be updated?
> >
> >I'm not certain but I think it's just that the documentation is out of sync
> >with the code.
> >
> 
> For ordinary third party developers who want to contribute, this is what we
> usually call "outdated" or "not updated so far".

I agree, and understand the frustration.

> The question would be if there is an intention to "update" it by the Mozilla
> community.

I honnestly don't know, sorry.


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Paul Bone
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