Re: Need to edit Firefox 3.5 compatible extensions to install them in IceCat

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi,

it is a nice hack to have it working quickly, but we don't want to break
compatibility with Firefox addons, it will be very silly to imagine
every addon will maintain a separate version just for us to use "-g1".

Giuseppe


Figue <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi,
>
> try with
>
> <!-- GNU IceCat -->
> <em:targetApplication>
> <Description>
>
> <em:minVersion>3.5-g1</em:minVersion>
> <em:maxVersion>3.5-g1</em:maxVersion>
>
>
> Regards
>
> Figue
>
>
> Giuseppe Scrivano said the following on 11/07/09 18:15:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I looked at the .xpi you sent me and I noticed this:
>>
>>    <em:minVersion>3.5</em:minVersion>
>>    <em:maxVersion>3.5</em:maxVersion>
>>
>> Is there any special reason why the langpack should work exactly on 3.5?
>> I think that it is a too strict requirement, why it shouldn't work on
>> 3.5.1 or 3.5.0.1?  I don't know if Firefox langpacks do the same, but it
>> seems a bit strange to me.
>>
>> Anyway, I am going to change the versioning scheme for IceCat, I'll
>> remove the -gN suffix, we were using it to have more releases based on
>> the same Firefox version, but it never happened in reality.  IMO, drop
>> the suffix is better than introduce new changes in the library to handle
>> it or don't work with so many addons.
>>
>> Giuseppe
>>
>>
>>
>> al3xu5 / dotcommon<address@hidden>  writes:
>>
>>    
>>> Il giorno venerdì 10/07/2009 19:52:35 CEST
>>> Bruno Miguel<address@hidden>  ha scritto:
>>>
>>>      
>>>> I know that a lot of Firefox extensions are not yet upgraded to
>>>> version 3.5. But some are. And I've been having some difficulties
>>>> installing some of them. Although maxversion is set to 3.5, I have to
>>>> change it to 3.6pre1 so it installs.
>>>>
>>>> I've already reported this behavior with Firebug [1]. I'm using the
>>>> latest 1.4 beta version, which is, according to the info available in
>>>> addons.mozilla.org, Firefox 3.5 compatible (but it doesn't work,
>>>> unfortunately). Now, it happened with oxygen theme [2], which was
>>>> finally ported to the new Firefox version.
>>>>
>>>> I checked the install.rdf and the max-version is 3.5. I didn't try to
>>>> install it with Firefox, but I assume it should install with no
>>>> problem. Yet, IceCat 3.5 doesn't allow installation.
>>>>
>>>> Is there any problem in the browser identification?
>>>>        
>>> I still have the same ("extension not compatible") problem with the
>>> it.xpi langpack I have rebranded...
>>>
>>> The addon maxversion is set to 3.5.
>>>
>>> I am using the test GNU IceCat file from here:
>>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/3.5-g1/
>>>
>>> Hope it helps
>>>
>>> Regards
>>>
>>>
>>> al3xu5 / dotcommon
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