In trying to clean up dependencies, I discovered that caps and libjar are mutually dependent...this is bad because libjar is needed by XPCOM for packaged xpt support, so xpcom transitively depends on caps. It looks like it's the nsIPrincipal interface that libjar uses is the culprit. I don't know enough about libcaps or libjar to know what the proper fix is here, but its something that needs to be fixed for embeddors.

The XPCOM jar stuff is not included in an XPCOM standalone build. Is packaged xpt support going into XPCOM standalone when we end up with the one, true XPCOM?

it isn't right now, but we're eliminating XPCOM_STANDALONE I'm not sure how we'll be doing packaged xpt support, but in any case we need to fix these two dependencies.

I've been planning to remove the dependency on nsIPrincipal in nsJAR.cpp; will that fix the problem?

awesome! I believe it would.

mitch: I'm trying to get xpcom into an isolated library by mozilla 0.9.6... is there any chance this can be fixed by then? (or sooner..?)

any news here? I'll gladly review once we get a complete fix.

Alec, I'll try to have it finished this week.

0.9.9

EDT Triage (chofmann, polar bear, cathleen) - minusing, Keep working on this, not critical and will take in a future milestone. adding dveditz to the cc list.

this no longer blocks embedding as libjar is no longer required by xpcom.

Clearing milestone for now.

Resolving wontfix. If this is still important, please reopen.