On 08/07/2015 05:15 AM, Etienne Segonzac wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 6:02 AM, Fabrice Desré <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > On 08/06/2015 08:55 PM, Kevin Grandon wrote: > > 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? > > No. We don't have that many add-ons and I'm removing the old code. We're > talking about ~25 add-ons to update, not a few thousands... > > > > So publishing a zip file with a manifest.webapp + a manifest.json should > make the addon future-proof while still keeping it working on foxfood > devices right?
With the current patch, no... because that would mean that a package with both .webapp and .json would always be an addon, and that would prevent regualar apps from including a file named manifest.json. I guess we could refine by checking the content of the various manifests... but seriously, for 25 existing add-ons? And I already converted Snappy Twitter and the Brightness slider ones at https://people.mozilla.org/~fdesre/extensions One of the changes to make to the mini-manifest is that the "developer" property can only have a "name" sub-property because manifest.json only has an "author" property. Fabrice -- Fabrice Desré b2g team Mozilla Corporation _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
