Is it by chance possible to maintain support for the old format for a time
to give developers a chance to transition existing addons into the new
format?

Best,
Kevin

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Fabrice Desré <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Hi all,
>
> Work is ongoing to share the same add-on api across gecko based
> products. Bill landed the toolkit and desktop support this week, and I'm
> close to land the initial b2g support. This is happening in bug 1190995
> and bug 1191619.
>
> That means that the current add-ons will stop working and need to be
> converted to the "chrome extensions" format. They are still zip files,
> but without a manifest.webapp file. Instead, provide a manifest.json
> that is compatible with https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/manifest .
> Since we only supported script injection, the most interesting section
> will be https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/content_scripts
>
> I'm fine with holding up landing if we want to let hackerplace hosted
> add-ons some time to proceed with the conversion, but I will land late
> next week at the latest.
>
>         Fabrice
> --
> Fabrice Desré
> b2g team
> Mozilla Corporation
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