Thanks for the update. I just repackaged my extensions: http://www.vasanth.in/2009/06/18/repackaged-my-chrome-extensions/
Installation of extensions is still broken in build 3.0.189.0 though. Currently one has to download the extension to a local folder and double click to install it. Regards, Vasanth http://www.vasanth.in On Jun 17, 8:56 pm, Nick Baum <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > **We're excited to see many people are experimenting with the upcoming > extension features of Chrome in the dev channel. We're getting a lot of > great feedback and are working hard to bring extensions to the stable > channel as quickly as possible. > > As part of the latest dev channel release, we've had to make a breaking > change to the crx format. This change adds signatures to our package format, > which are necessary to enable automatic updates. Unfortunately, this means > that any existing extensions will stop working, and will have to be > repackaged. > > - *If you've developed an extension,* you can learn how to repackage your > extensions for Chrome v 3.0.189.0 in *the packaging > doc<http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/packaging> > * on our developer site. Note that your extension ID will now be your > public key, so you'll have to change any code that uses that. > - *If you're using an extension someone else has developed, *you will > have to reinstall it once the developer has repackaged it (as described > above). We've already updated our sample > extensions<http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/samples> > . > > Even though the whole point of the dev channel is to make our APIs available > early while they're still changing, we don't make these changes lightly. > Once we push the extension system to the stable channel, breaking changes > should be very rare (we'd like to say non-existent, but we don't want to > jinx ourselves). > > Let us know if you have any questions or run into any problems. > Cheers, > > -Nick > > PS: I'll be cc'ing chromium-dev and discuss for a few days, until people > have had the time to subscribe to > chromium-extensions<http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions>. > We also posted this to the chromium blog <http://blog.chromium.org>, which I > recommend subscribing to if you haven't already. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Chromium Discussion mailing list: [email protected] View archives, change email options, or unsubscribe: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-discuss -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
