Re: Need to edit Firefox 3.5 compatible extensions to install them in IceCat

[Giuseppe Scrivano]

Hi,

I looked at the .xpi you sent me and I noticed this:

  <em:minVersion>3.5</em:minVersion>
  <em:maxVersion>3.5</em:maxVersion>

Is there any special reason why the langpack should work exactly on 3.5?
I think that it is a too strict requirement, why it shouldn't work on
3.5.1 or 3.5.0.1?  I don't know if Firefox langpacks do the same, but it
seems a bit strange to me.

Anyway, I am going to change the versioning scheme for IceCat, I'll
remove the -gN suffix, we were using it to have more releases based on
the same Firefox version, but it never happened in reality.  IMO, drop
the suffix is better than introduce new changes in the library to handle
it or don't work with so many addons.

Giuseppe



al3xu5 / dotcommon <address@hidden> writes:

> Il giorno venerdì 10/07/2009 19:52:35 CEST
> Bruno Miguel <address@hidden> ha scritto:
>
>> I know that a lot of Firefox extensions are not yet upgraded to
>> version 3.5. But some are. And I've been having some difficulties
>> installing some of them. Although maxversion is set to 3.5, I have to
>> change it to 3.6pre1 so it installs.
>> 
>> I've already reported this behavior with Firebug [1]. I'm using the
>> latest 1.4 beta version, which is, according to the info available in
>> addons.mozilla.org, Firefox 3.5 compatible (but it doesn't work,
>> unfortunately). Now, it happened with oxygen theme [2], which was
>> finally ported to the new Firefox version.
>> 
>> I checked the install.rdf and the max-version is 3.5. I didn't try to
>> install it with Firefox, but I assume it should install with no
>> problem. Yet, IceCat 3.5 doesn't allow installation.
>> 
>> Is there any problem in the browser identification?
>
> I still have the same ("extension not compatible") problem with the
> it.xpi langpack I have rebranded...
>
> The addon maxversion is set to 3.5.
>
> I am using the test GNU IceCat file from here:
> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/3.5-g1/
>
> Hope it helps
>
> Regards 
>
>
> al3xu5 / dotcommon
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