Is this project dead?
madushan1000 opened this issue · comments
I'm wondering if this project is dead since there are no commits/fixes in some time now and the laters firefox 74.0a1 nightly seems to break the experimental APIs. My addon built using libdweb works fine with firefox 73.0a1 nightly.
Which APIs are you using? I believe as of current Firefox nightly you also need to set the pref extensions.experiments.enabled to true for the APIs to be loaded.
Regarding the project status I believe the upstreaming of the protocol handler API is currently stalled in review. Maybe @Gozala knows more...
Given that I am no longer a Mozilla employ, I can only speculate what the future of this project might be. However as @sammacbeth pointed out all the APIs were rewritten for landing to Firefox, and were stalled on review. If I do get those reviewed (which seems unlikely) I'll be willing to volunteer to get across the finish line.
@sammacbeth thank you for the tip, I'll try setting that flag!
Meanwhile, I would love to see the libdweb apis land in the mainline Firefox(hopefully on mobile too). I'm only using the protocol handler api for now, but I would need to use the TCPsocket and TCPlistner apis too in the future.
@Gozala do you know who else we can reach out to get the changes reviewed?
Thank you very much for the help!
For the protocol handler there are some minor fixes in my fork for nightly: sammacbeth@aca62bf
@Gozala I would very much like to see this move forward. If I can do anything on my end please let me know. I'd be happy to lend some dev time to this if you're not able to commit time.
I am afraid I do not know how to move this forward. Asking on corresponding bugzilla issues might help but also may not.
If I'm fully honest I am skeptical Mozilla merging any of these into the tree. Lack of interest/support made it impossible while I was employed. People who cared are gone so I have hard time imagining it becoming a priority.
@sammacbeth I've forked this repo to https://github.com/libdweb/libdweb/, none of us have write access here so it's probably best to land any changes there (you should have access to do so).
I have diverged from code here quite a bit in patches attached to bugzilla based on review feedback and the fact that JS streams became a thing in Firefox. It might be worth to try and get those changes incorporated.
I personally can't justify spending more of my time on this. As I don't see a path to landing and I should really be looking for payed job instead.
@Gozala Fair enough, and understandable. I'll push my changes to the libdweb/libdweb repo, and try to incorporate your changes from bugzilla there too. Best of luck for whatever is next for you!