On Friday, August 7, 2015 at 2:11:56 AM UTC+8, Fabrice Desré 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

Does this means the current development way, namely to install experiment 
Add-on via WebIDE and debug it, will not work anymore? Since now it needs a 
hosted `update.webapp`, which seems not a part of such flow. Also, does that 
means each developer now needs to implement the installation page as the 
article "Publishing apps yourself" describes?
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