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diff --git a/tools/addon-sdk-1.7/packages/api-utils/README.md b/tools/addon-sdk-1.7/packages/api-utils/README.md deleted file mode 100644 index 55adb57..0000000 --- a/tools/addon-sdk-1.7/packages/api-utils/README.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -<!-- This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public - - License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this - - file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/. --> - -API Utils provides a basic CommonJS infrastructure for -developing traditional XULRunner add-ons and applications. It is -the basis for the Add-on SDK. - -To address issues present in traditional add-on development, -API Utils provides mechanisms for: - -* writing and executing test cases, inspired by Python's [nose][] - package, -* tracking JS objects of interest to aid in memory profiling and leak - detection, -* registering callbacks that perform cleanup tasks when modules are - unloaded, -* easily reporting errors with full stack tracebacks. - -API Utils also has the following characteristics: - -* Beautiful, concise documentation. -* A rigorous test suite ensuring that the library doesn't break as the - Mozilla platform evolves. -* Solid developer ergonomics ensuring that developers can easily find - out why something they're doing isn't working. - -API Utils is intended to be very small and only contain the bare -minimum of functionality that all add-ons need. - -Note that the API Utils package has not fully stabilized yet, meaning that -we do still expect to make incompatible changes to its APIs in future releases -of the SDK. - - [nose]: http://code.google.com/p/python-nose/ |