preload.py was indeed intended for the late customization use case.
The "customization" in the stock build asked here is basically the
same, so we could use the same tool here.
I am opt for a prettier solution (than check-in the preloaded assets),
but given the schedule required ("must be completed in this sprint")
and also an explicit statement from the product management on "not
looking for a prettier solution", preload.py looks to me like the only
way out. I am glad we have a way out available under the tight
constraint to be honest.
Unless there are objections, I will r+ such setup when I am given a
patch. Thanks.
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 8:24 AM, Sam Foster <[email protected]> wrote:
> This sounds like the use case for late customization(1), no?
> Except in this case we (Mozilla) are the vendor, and are suggesting other
> vendors follow suit with our default customization.
>
> 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1180707
>
> /Sam
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Douglas Sherk <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I'm cutting everyone on this email chain and moving the conversation to
>> dev-gaia and dev-b2g.
>>
>> The problem here is that we don't have a good way to preload Marketplace
>> apps into "base" Firefox OS. We were able to do this for the foxfooding
>> builds because of the fortunate happenstance of them being shipped with the
>> Spark distro, which includes support for this procedure. Unfortunately, we
>> can't upstream these changes, as they break the requirement that builds
>> don't access the internet.
>>
>> The purpose of this thread is decide on a solution for this. So far, the
>> only feasible proposal was from Tim, which was that we run |preload.py|
>> locally and then check the results of it directly into the Gaia repo on
>> regular intervals. However, we should discuss this further, as the NGA apps
>> are going to run into similar problems as progress is made on them.
>>
>
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