Thanks for the information Daniel. I plan to distibute both Mozilla and
non-Mozilla application. So I guess I will wait a little longer to see how
the installer come along.
"Daniel Veditz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Daniel Chee wrote:
> >
> > Ok. I was hoping to be able to build add-on applications packaged as XPI
to
> > add to mozilla. Would it be possible to package an application that uses
the
> > same distribution method Netscape6 uses? Download a stub and select what
you
> > want installed, hit ok and the stub/engine will download whatever files
are
> > needed from the website and install it. Thanks.
> > Daniel
>
> If you want to build an add-on application for Mozilla you can create a
.xpi
> file without any Mozilla source and serve it on your website. If you want
to
> package your non-Mozilla application the way Netscape 6 is (i.e. with a
> separate component downloader) then see Sean's post. There are key pieces
> currently missing from the open source package--such as the download
> agent!--that no one has volunteered to write. Netscape didn't need that
> part because we used a 3rd party utility to fill that role.
>
> -Dan Veditz
