Sorry, one more followup. I see now that I misread at the beginning and you
were working with the Extensions policy which should have supported native
paths.

That's a bug and I'll look into it.

I've added the comment about ExtensionSettings to the policy doc.

Mike

On Thu, Feb 4, 2021 at 11:40 AM Mike Kaply <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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:
>
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>> 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
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