rpm packages of thunderbird/firefox extensions

[Matthew Miller]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 04:50:49AM -0400, Christopher Aillon wrote:
> Is it possible?  Yes.  Is it easy?  Not really, due to the way that the 
> extension manager works in Firefox 1.0 -- the extension manager in 
> Firefox 1.1 is much nicer and works better with Linux.  I also don't 
> provide devel packages for either because of some packaging conflict 
> issues with the mozilla package, so it is slightly more difficult as well.

Hey Christopher -- is the new extension manager going to deal with the
updating-per-user-extensions-and-themese issue at all? Or is the idea going
to be to break that completely and ask people to install extensions
system-wide? 

Or, is there any way to mix-and-match gracefully?


> I'm actually working on packaging up Deer Park Alpha 1, which is a very 
> early alpha release of Firefox 1.1, which should hit rawhide soon.  I 
> will also get preview builds of xulrunner which should help to alleviate 
> this problem.  I hope the situation will be much nicer for FC5.

Me too. :)

Oh, on a totally 'nother topic -- I saw some work recently on python
bindings for XPCOM. Is that likely to make it into XULRunner in the, like,
predicatable future? That would so rock.


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