Re: Firefox 52 release contains unrelased NSPR changes

Kai Engert <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:53:23 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.nspr
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 12:49 +0100, Kai Engert wrote:
> ...
> 
> (a) https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/diff/da9997b39928/nsprpub/pr/includ
> e/prio.h
> ...
> 
> Commit (a) changed the size of PRNetAddr on Windows.
> It would be easiest, if we could simply pick up that change.
> 
> However, is that change acceptable for NSPR?
> 
> Or is there anyone on Windows who ships NSPR binaries separately from
> applications and requires forward compatibility? I guess that would only be a
> concern, if an application allocated this structure, and passed it to the
> library. Is this ever happening?

I'm hoping for some comments on this detail.

We should try to release NSPR 4.14 very soon, possibly by Thursday.

After the release is done, we'd like to start testing the other recent changes
to NSPR with mozilla-central, for preparing a NSPR 4.15 release.

Thanks
Kai