Good call, I didn't even think about that. What's even more confusing is that Extensions did support local paths originally, so we kept it for legacy purposes.
ExtensionSettings doesn't. Mike On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:38 AM Andrew J. Buehler <[email protected]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 2021-02-04 at 12:17, Mike Kaply wrote: > > > So file URL was mentioned in the install_url, but it was kind of > > buried. I made it more prominent and added a link to how file URLs > > work. > > To be honest, this would not have helped me. I was looking at the > "Extensions" policy, not the "ExtensionSettings" policy; I would not > have expected the latter to be relevant, and indeed I may not even have > noticed that it was present. Now that I've looked at it I can see how > it's probably possible to use ExtensionSettings to specify installation > of an extension, but at first glance based on the name I'd have expected > it to be about configuring extensions, not about installing them. > > If it's recommendable to use ExtensionSettings rather than Extensions > for installing such things, it might be worth noting that on the > documentation for the Extensions policy, perhaps even by marking that > policy as deprecated. > > - -- > Andrew J. Buehler > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQJJBAEBCgAzFiEEJCOqsZEc2qVC44pUBKk1jTQoMmsFAmAcMQQVHHdhbmRlcmVy > QGZhc3RtYWlsLmZtAAoJEASpNY00KDJryoMQAJCdfL60SrCDOxdwUQmU0jlF19qY > hxRc9LE/7HgBznDs0FPq2141IHGNfYTVVtLa6adh8PKqUfzkqiMhN+i0XcxCbfut > xvtmolmcRH6LBsQSA+1ZWDOS601aldAKY6XEf2jFZx8eFd1uiRUOxVJjG1pnw+bL > DzWfsIz7GcAnVEmOsFgj1Dao+P7s0zIe1YJcgk78y8+2bf465FgnuhIpsRyCETCX > O0hrNJ1EKZySE2rlTleOtc/KxqM/Rw84CyVQhEMhisj1OtwI2u2TJ7c122jAn/wi > fDDa6YwYSiS9AwcKUnHR/W+TWcxyYvMLkwzzaBMeqJ6VoiLZ8yAbsdA7isuBBuWu > FfDp4kn5VbxZK/tr/OdlfJMPE5PGefTmdYJ/X1jieyz0iB8+p1CxdgpAlZhjUv9L > q1y1LyHkvjpqpKFbzLZNBXGP5/g0Wz+JheOjfQ6sXCoQsko2zx97F3BtJiAi+VKP > f5X6AN7/y6QoMvqWCB6DdBUbpkerf69Wb4AR1As8jZDKxDVJrKilAy7NJskOzys3 > CqcWajgMw3tYhWkNor1knRIYmyebxfHsZeZpC7wePN0YXqrhcuYpjiH79fm4fUEl > r4YAU/RzofG3gTqB8fl5QlHDR8vvrxbf3hiOO/2c+22uQXbgfWbXqoXcPUndsMlj > mmUgNAF4ETiRUEZG > =iNl8 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Enterprise mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise > > To unsubscribe from this list, please visit > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/enterprise or send an email to > [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe" >
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