[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] Draft Mozilla extension packaging policy

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Wed Jul 1 17:39:16 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 09:14:07AM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 07:33:25AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 10:32:50PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 08:17:08PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > > > I'd say putting the extensions there now would be future-proof and the
> > > > best thing to do IMHO. Then we could put links in
> > > > /usr/share/iceweasel/extensions of
> > > > /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{app-id}. I'd be more in favour of the
> > > > latter, especially considering the app-id is in install.rdf, and we
> > > > don't need to keep a list of app-id <-> locations mappings.
> > > 
> > > OK, so consent is to use "mozilla" location with xul-ext- prefix?
> > 
> > Actually, why a prefix at all ? If all extension packages Provide
> > something, they can surely be searched with that... All applications
> > targetted at gnome don't start with gnome- in their package name...
> But those aren't extensions but applications that are fine to run
> without any other gnome application. I'd compare XUL extensions more
> with python modules and these do have a python- prefix.

On the other hand, now I think more about it, they really are xulrunner
applications extensions, not xul extensions. In fact, you can have
xulrunner applications extensions without a single line of xul.

Mike



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