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

[Guido Günther]

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.
Cheers,
 -- Guido