Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 19:27:38 +0200 From: Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> To: Florian Smeets <flo@smeets.im> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xpi-* broken since firefox-22 Message-ID: <521B900A.6090001@bsdforen.de> In-Reply-To: <521B8975.2000601@smeets.im> References: <521B450C.6030606@bsdforen.de> <521B8975.2000601@smeets.im>
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On 26/08/2013 18:59, Florian Smeets wrote: > On 26.08.13 14:07, Dominic Fandrey wrote: >> I don't know whether that's a general problem or just affects me, >> but since Firefox 22 the xpi-* ports don't work for me any more. >> > > This was broken for a brief period, it should be fixed though. You might > need to reinstall the xpis so that the correct links are created. Thanks, when it happened I installed everything locally and that probably masks that the ports xpis work again. >> Any plugin/addon may be added to the ports collection if one or more >> of the following conditions are met: >> - The plugin/addon builds/contains native code >> - The plugin/addon is a dependency of another port >> - The plugin/addon improves the integration with the base system, >> .e.g. it adds support for common environment variables like LANG, >> HTTP_PROXY or TZ > > That's the plan anyway. I'm working on it. Enigmail and lightning will > stay, perhaps the MOZILLA-xpi ports, but I'm leaning to removing those > too, as they can be installed from addons.mozilla.org just fine. I'm > just busy and haven't put this up for approval/discussion, yet. I'm maintainer of 2 xpi- ports. I'm willing to continue maintaining them if this is the verdict. But my vote is on getting rid of them. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
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