Agreed these are serious issues facing the FF plugin. For the moment, we're doing a little bit of wait and see to see if this new release strategy (specifically the forced rebuild of all extensions) actually sticks. If it does, we'll certainly need to retool how we spin plugin builds for new versions of Firefox.
The size issue will definitely be a problem. In anticipation of that, we've reduced the compiled output size considerably by turning off some debug flags, and our plugin supporting 3.0-5.0 clocks in at just 2.0MB. Long term, we'll probably need to fashion some kind of split binary or revisit the notion of having every version supported in a single xpi. Short term, the unsatisfying answer that I can give to you is that we will lag Firefox's release schedule. If you rely on the Firefox GWT DevMode plugin, be sure to keep an instance of a known working version of firefox around for your development. On Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 1:22 PM, dsuwirya <dsuwi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > The intention of this post is to actually ask you about the strategy > and approach that the GWT team takes regarding the GWT developer > plugin for FF, and what's the plan going forward. > > With the 6 weeks release cycle that FF takes right now, I see that > it's difficult to keep up with them as every new release of FF > requires us to recompile the plugin with the new gecko-sdk > and to produce a new dll out of it. If we need to keep doing that, > it's pretty resource consumptive, plus at the end the size of the > plugin is going to explode pretty quickly also. > > I hope you don't mind to share your view about this. Thanks a lot. > > Best regards. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google Web Toolkit" group. > To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to google-web-toolkit@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-web-toolkit+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-web-toolkit?hl=en.
