On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 4:38 PM, Avi Drissman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Evan Martin <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Distributing binaries on Linux = sadness, as the Flash guys will tell
>> you.
>> [...]
>>
>> In summary, all I offer you is more problems and the plea that we
>> should really really deter people from doing this kind of thing.  I
>> imagine a dystopian future where we have a per-extension appsupport
>> matrix on the install page ("Works on x86-based ChromeOS but not
>> arm-based ChromeOS" or whatever).
>>
>
> As much as I agree with everything you've said, I think the ship has
> already sailed on this. We're already allowing binaries in extensions. Now
> we have to figure out how to mitigate the pain.
>

I think we can wait to see what percentage of extensions actually include
binaries before devoting too much time to this. Our expectation is that this
will be a very small percentage, right?

Ojan



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