Alexander Sack wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 03:28:52PM -0000, Benjamin Drung wrote:
>> htmlvalidator depends on tidy (written in C) and opensp (written in C++)
>> and therefore it is not platform independent. So you need a xpi file for
>> every platform. Therefore it is very useful to have an Ubuntu package.
>>
>
> Yes, I agree. native extensions have high-prio as we can make them
> available on all platforms supported.
>
>
>> The original source package has to be included into the Firefox build
>> process. The xpi file is generated with some scripts. I am working on
>> the htmlvalidator package to make it easier to compile. It now uses
>> autotools and only needs the development package of Firefox. You can get
>> the source from the SourceForge.net SVN repository. You can checkout it
>> with "svn co
>> https://htmlvalidator.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/htmlvalidator/trunk
>> htmlvalidator". I have uploaded the current version to my PPA:
>> https://launchpad.net/~bdrung/+archive
>
> We dont want the complete firefox source in the source package. so we
> need to do some work to clean this up.
>
> I guess that this extension requires the mozilla buildsystem (which is
> usually the reason why extensions require a full ffox source tree).
>
> We ship a build-system in latest intrepid bzr branch for xulrunner and
> probably should look into making that usable for extensions as well
> (it was created to support xulapps).
>
>> There is a lot to do to get this package ready for universe and I am
>> thankful for help:
>>
>> * A AUTHORS and LICENCE file is missing.
>> * configure.ac and all the Makefile.am could be cleaned and make them more
>> portable (maybe use of libtool).
>> * split the package into htmlvalidator and htmlvalidator-data
>>
>
> affects firefox-extensions
> status confirmed
>
>
> - Alexander
>
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-extensions
> Status: New => Confirmed
>
Ignore my last email/post as i didnt see Alexanders post.
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