That's http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=14936 . The was an internal thread ("Binary files an a crx") a while ago on this.
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Avi Drissman <[email protected]> wrote: > Andy sent me a CL for review about an extension crashing > (http://crbug.com/29584). Turns out the cause was a failure to load a > Windows .dll on the Mac. > > Huh? Then I went to look at the docs > (http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/npapi.html): > > { > "name": "My extension", > ... > "plugins": [ > { "path": "content_plugin.dll", "public": true }, > { "path": "extension_plugin.dll" } > > > ], > ... > } > > Are you kidding me? How can we get away with not specifying what platform > the extension will run on? (Hint: we can't.) > > If we had something like: > > "plugins": { > "mac": ... > "win": ... > "linux": ... > } > > then at least we could warn on the extensions website that a given extension > is only compatible with a certain platform. On a load attempt we could know > that the extension requires a certain native library and fail to load it > with a real user-friendly warning. > > And developers could make extensions that are cross-platform compatible. > > Today? > - We can't tell in advance what platforms an extensions runs on, so we can't > warn the user (either on the extensions site or in the app) > - The developer has no way of creating a cross-platform extension. > > This is a really bad situation we've created. We need to get a new syntax > out for extensions to fix this, and soon, before world-breaking becomes > prohibitively expensive. > > Avi > > -- > Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] > View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: > http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev -- Chromium Developers mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev
