On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 03:41:57PM +0000, Philip Hudson wrote: > On 19 Feb, 2012, at 3:23 pm, John J. Foerch wrote: > > >If 'xulrunner-bin --install-app' > >ignores our Info.plist and writes its own, what good does patching our > >Info.plist do at all? > > None that I know; that's why I didn't include that patch to start > with. Indeed, I don't know quite what relation if any our > Info.plist, patched or unpatched, has with the generated Info.plist; > it *seems* to be neither ignored completely, nor faithfully > followed. I think this will require some investigation of > xulrunner's code to resolve. > > I conjecture that running conkeror from the checkout directory in > the OS-independent, "standard" way on OS X (using the distributed > shell script, rather than using the generated conkeror.app) *might* > benefit from a patched git Info.plist, but I have no data on that > yet. That's why I say it may be necessary (but is definitely not > sufficient) to patch git Info.plist. > > Hope that's clear. My Mac is at your disposal for further investigation. > > Two tasks arising from this, then: > > - Find out wtf xulrunner is doing with Info.plist files when it runs > --install-app > > - Find out whether patching our Info.plist makes any difference to > remoting with 'open' after launching Conkeror on OS X using the > standard shell script from a git checkout (rather than the app that > xulrunner generates in /Applications). > > I'll get around to these slowly; if anyone else is keen, please > don't wait for me.
Are you referring to contrib/run-conkeror when you say the standard script? If so, it is standard no longer. The mechanism it uses to locate XULRunner was removed from XULRunner in version 5, so it is deprecated. What I suggest is the following: you (or any OS X user) write a minimal test case XULRunner application to investigate this issue. (It's not that hard.) If there turns out to be bugs in Mozilla, bring it to their attention. Keep us informed. -- John Foerch _______________________________________________ Conkeror mailing list [email protected] https://www.mozdev.org/mailman/listinfo/conkeror
