[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] XUL Extensions policy directory question

[Mike Hommey]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:25:57PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:03:05PM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:58:16PM +0100, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > > One concern raised by mozilla on a canonical location for _all_
> > > extensions that only work for some targetapplications - and why we
> > > probably do not want to put everything in common - is that startup
> > > performance will get a hit for nothing if an app has to parse extensions
> > > that are not going to work anyway.
> > 
> > The startup performance hit should only apply after an extension has been
> > installed. Not in other cases.
> 
> Right. still there is no real win from putting it into common ... imo
> not something we should put into policy (packages can do that if they
> want, but I wouldnt like to make a best practice out of it).

The advantage is that once the common directory is supported upstream,
there would be no need to modify mozilla-devscripts and rebuild *all* the
extensions packages to support any new application id.

Mike