On 10/19/2015 07:55 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 6:39 AM, Christopher Lord <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So currently it's built with the rest of the system, I don't know what
>> implications that has for updating... We could distribute it as a
>> marketplace app I think? Unfortunately got too many other things to deal
>> with right now to investigate this, but if anyone does, I'm sure it'd be
>> appreciated.
>
> At the very least we need to make sure that the app gets updated when
> we do a system update. For example when we're rolling out a new
> Foxfooding build. It would be sad if users and foxfooders got stuck on
> an old version of the homescreen.
>
> Fabrice probably knows what does and does not get updated.
The closest case we have now is marketplace which is also packaged. The
difference is that the marketplace app is not part of gaia itself and
thus is built out of band. The marketplace team then commit the
pre-built package directly and the metadata we need (like the hash of
the manifest and the package, and the url of the update manifest).
It seems like we would need a slightly different flow for the homescreen
if we want to keep building in as part of gaia *and* publish it to the
marketplace. My secret hope was to get nsec packages ready instead of
doing that!
Fabrice
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Fabrice Desré
b2g team
Mozilla Corporation
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