System xulrunner Extensions? [rpms/xulrunner/devel .cvsignore, 1.9, 1.10 sources, 1.9, 1.10 xulrunner.spec, 1.48, 1.49]

[Christopher Aillon]

On 01/16/2008 02:41 AM, Peter Gordon wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:56 -0500, Christopher Aillon wrote:
>> Log Message:
>> * Tue Jan 15 2008 Christopher Aillon <caillon at redhat.com> 1.9-0.beta2.11
>> - Update to latest trunk (2008-01-15)
>> - Now with system extensions directory support
> 
> Just for my own curiosity, how complete is this system extensions
> support? Can we now package, for example, Enigmail for Thunderbird or
> AdBlock for Firefox as a system-level thing to make it a bit simpler for
> users? 

For your own curiosity, you sure have a funny way of asking on a public 
forum.

Yes, I wrote this support and pushed it upstream to be complete.  I had 
waited on committing to any Fedora branches until it made it upstream as 
there was debate about the location name.  However there are caveats:

* It will only work for applications based upon XULRunner.  Meaning, not 
Thunderbird (yet).
* Packaging Guidelines are still being formulated[1], so be patient.
* It's noteworthy that many extensions do not have original sources 
available or are under bizarre licenses which would eliminate them from 
consideration for inclusion in Fedora.
* Most extensions are not yet compatible with Firefox 3.0 yet anyway, so 
there's some time yet.

[1] I've already been in touch with a member or two of FPC to get this 
started, but we aren't finished yet and as I'm travelling over the next 
few days is unlikely to get done until next week some time.