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

[Guido Günther]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:58:25PM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I read about this on the pkg-mozilla-maintainers list, but I'm now
> also subscribed to pkg-mozext-maintainers.
> 
> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 10:09:39PM +0200, Guido Günther wrote:
> > > I'd say we should start it up on the wiki as a draft of a proposed
> > > extensions policy.
> > 
> > I've added this here:
> > 
> > http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/DebianMozExtTeam#PolicyforpackagingXULbasedapplications
> 
> The headline says "Policy for packaging XUL based applications", but
> the text only talks about "extensions for XUL based applications". So
> for what is this policy planned to be, for XUL based applications or
> for extensions for them? (Probably the later one, but then the
> headline is quite misleading.)
It's about extension packaging. I'll fix that later so the URL remains
unaltered.

> I currently aks myself if this policy is relevant for the XULrunner
> app I'm maintaining (conkeror, http://conkeror.org/) or if it's only
> relevant for extensions of e.g. conkeror...
No, it only affect extensions to conkeror.

> In case it's for extensions, I really welcome the idea of a central
> extension directory and the symlinks to all supported applications
> since this will allow to also support those extensions in Conkeror. 

> I also suggest to add Conkeror (and any other XULrunner app in
> Debian(*)) to the list of "Icedove, Iceweasel, Iceape and Iceowl"
> since quite a few firefox extensions also work with Conkeror.
Feel free to add this to the Wiki!
 -- Guido