On 6/24/11, Justin Wood (Callek) <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6/24/2011 11:31 AM, Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: >> Lee wrote: >>> On 6/23/11, Justin Wood (Callek)<[email protected]> wrote: >>>> I just wanted to make you all aware of a user-facing change I am being >>>> forced to make for SeaMonkey 2.2 >>>> >>>> The idea is I'd either not make it, or risk keeping users exposed to >>>> security risks far longer than should be the case. >>>> >>>> Bug 666518 (PLEASE respond only here unless you are helping to FIX the >>>> bug, advocacy will be fine in newsgroups/e-mail but not bug, thank you) >>>> >>>> I will be removing the Windows Installers' ability to selectively >>>> install extensions. >>>> >>>> The codepaths that make the packaging of the installer able to support >>>> this feature are very complex, and apparantly quite easy to break. While >>>> removing the ability entirely (user facing anyway) is as simple as >>>> dropping one variable in a makefile we control. >>>> >>>> I do have ideas on how I can restore the basic functionality offered by >>>> this installer feature, but it won't be until 2.5 at the earliest I can >>>> get that working, and I have no guarantees as I have not looked deeply >>>> into it yet. But I feel that my efforts to support a very complex system >>>> here which HAVE to coexist with the Firefox systems and are only growing >>>> in complexity as of late, are better spent supporting other aspects of >>>> SeaMonkey and doing bug fixing/stability/releng on a wider scale. >>>> >>>> After reading that bug, if you have any >>>> comments/complaints/show-of-support or suggestions, please feel free to >>>> state them here. >>> >>> show-of-support: thank you for continuing to work on SeaMonkey >>> >>> After looking at the bug report I'm no closer to understanding what >>> the security risks are, but if all it means is I have to do another >>> step or three to uninstall extensions that I don't want vs. some >>> security issue.. I think you made the right decision. >>> >>> Thanks again, >>> Lee >> >> As long as during the install process of 2.2, it is made _clear_ >> to the client which extensions are being automatically installed, >> and there is a clear set of instructions for how the person can >> uninstall each of these extensions, (in case they wish to do so). >> > > During the install process of 2.2 you now get "all of SeaMonkey" whereas > unless you did "CUSTOM" before you got the same thing as we do now. > > Supporting CUSTOM selection of the addons we ship with is not easily > possible anymore [without much more time investment than I feel > comfortable with], and is why I removed that, you are still able to > change all other custom options, and you are still able to > disable/uninstall extensions on a per-profile basis like in 2.1. > > I have absolutely no plans to mention this explicitly in the installer, > as the basics are meant to "just work".
Some mention of the change in the release notes would be nice tho. Maybe along the lines of The windows installer no longer supports a "custom" installation. You can uninstall the default add-ons, on a per-profile basis, by using the tools / add-on manager menu. Regards, Lee _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
