Bug 215503 – [GTK][WPE] Remove support for NPAPI plugins

• Component: WebKitGTK
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Now that we have branched for 2.30 it's a good moment to finally remove the plugins support.

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Created attachment 406594 [details]
Patch

I hope I caught all tests using plugins, I'll watch the bots once the patch lands. I'll also close all bug reports about plugins.

[EWS Watchlist]

Thanks for the patch. If this patch contains new public API please make sure it follows the guidelines for new WebKit2 GTK+ API. See http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKitGTK/AddingNewWebKit2API

[Darin Adler]

Comment on attachment 406594 [details]
Patch

View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=406594&action=review

> LayoutTests/platform/glib/TestExpectations:956
> +# Plugins

Here’s a follow-up task that’s helpful for clarity and the future, but is a little extra work because of the platforms that still do have the plug-in support around.

Seems like it’s worthwhile to *move* these tests all into the plugins and http/tests/plugins directories.

Except for the tests that just *happen* to use plug-ins that could be redone to test the same thing without a plug-in. Those we could *copy* into the plugins or http/tests/plugins directory and modify (and possibly rename) the original to not use plug-ins any more.

It could be a little bit of a pain to do those moves, but I think it’s good for the health of the project. And it would also make this skipping only two lines long.

The alternative is to wait until we can delete plug-in support on all platforms, then we can delete instead of moving.

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

Committed r265753: <https://trac.webkit.org/changeset/265753>