Dan Mosedale wrote:
>
> Daniel Veditz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> > 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.
>
> I thought this was no longer true. The Mozilla linux installer works,
> and it uses an open-source downloader based on necko. Am I confused?
The original question was about Win32. We're working on porting/improving
the code we are already using for Linux, but it's not yet available.
Excuse the obstructionism, I was just a little piqued that lots of people
have wanted a Netscape6-like download agent for Mozilla but no one has
offered to help us out with it. For a long time Netscape didn't need such a
thing for windows or mac so it has been hard justifying to management why I
wanted to spend Netscape engineers doing the work.
Of course *now* they want me to put ads in the damn thing.
-Dan Veditz
