On Thursday 17 April 2003 19:48, Celso González wrote: > Hi, i'm trying to package the enigmail and enigmime mozilla plugins and > I have seen that almost every mozilla related package is based on a > precompiled xpi. > Normally the debian package unzip the xpi and install evrything > > Usually these xpis are based in a c or c++ sources that are compiled > using a mozilla build tree.
I guess you're talking about the few extensions i package, and none of these are c or c++ based. For these packages, the XPI is only a zip archive containing XUL, JS and DTD files (sometimes bundled in a jar file) + an install.js file used by mozilla to get stuff installed. > There is a package (mozilla-dev) that provides several utilities to > compile this plugins without a mozilla build tree. > > I think the right way to generate the debian packages is using the > sources not the xpi ¿is the right way or i'm wrong and the unzip of xpis > is a good solution? My latest packages now use an unzipped form of the xpi file (see tabextensions or ctxextensions). I am about to release tools to convert xpi files to debian packages, see bug #131404. -- Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "This will go a long way towards the war on terror. Terrorists won't be able to install and use unauthorized OS's. This could potentially save thousands of lives." -- a slashdotter about "Trusted Computing"
