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 <[email protected]> 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<[email protected]> writes: >> >> >>> Il giorno venerdì 10/07/2009 19:52:35 CEST >>> Bruno Miguel<[email protected]> 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 >>> >>> --- >>> Support free software! Join FSF: http://www.fsf.org/jf?referrer=7535 >>> You will receive a bootable USB membership card with gNewSense Live! >>> >>> -- >>> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >>> >> >> -- >> http://gnuzilla.gnu.org >> -- http://gnuzilla.gnu.org
