I talked to Brendan on Thursday about this and I think that Mark is right:
Mozilla has no plans to abandon XPCOM outright, though by "putting it back
in its place" I get the impression that this means "using it as sparingly as
possible".  I believe this means that C++ components that only need to be
used by other C++ components will just be linked together rather than being
wrapped in XPCOM components, and JS code that just needs to be used by other
JS code will similarly be put in js-modules.  However, I could be wrong on
even that, so I'll post more updates here as I gain a better understanding
of the situation.

- Atul

On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 1:21 AM, Mark Hammond <mhammond@[...].au> 
wrote:

>  My understanding is that Mozilla isn't really "moving away" from xpcom,
>  just
>  putting it back in its place :)  I believe xpcom will still form the basis
>  of their public, stable/frozen APIs, although xpcom itself is likely to
>  need
>  to change for the mozilla2 platform.  The best reference I can find to
>  support this is from Brendan's blog of a couple of years ago:
> 
>  http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2006/02/fresh_xpcom_thinking
>  .html<http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roadmap/archives/2006/02/fresh_xpcom_thinking.html>,
>  and although it doesn't mention mozilla2, I believe it is relevant.
> 
>  Cheers,
> 
>  Mark
> 
>  > -----Original Message-----
>  > From: pyxpcom-bounces@[...].com [mailto:pyxpcom-
>  > bounces@[...].com] On Behalf Of Philip Semanchuk
>  > Sent: Monday, 9 June 2008 11:17 AM
>  > To: pyxpcom@[...].com
>  > Subject: Re: [pyxpcom] Firepy
>  >
>  >
>  > On Jun 8, 2008, at 12:05 PM, Atul Varma wrote:
>  >
>  > > Mozilla is also moving away from XPCOM,
>  >
>  >
>  > Hi Atul,
>  > Since I'm new to the XPCOM world I'm still trying to get my bearings.
>  > I thought Mozilla was using *more* XPCOM, not moving away from it. Can
>  > you enlighten me, please?
>  >
>  > Thanks
>  > Philip
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