[Tickets #2565] Re: Gecko Bookmarks extension

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=2565
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 Ticket             | 2565
 Updated By         | Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org>
 Summary            | Gecko Bookmarks extension
 Queue              | Trean
 Type               | Enhancement
 State              | Feedback
 Priority           | 2. Medium
 Owners             | 
+New Attachment     | extension.php
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Jan Schneider <jan at horde.org> (2007-06-20 00:40) wrote:

> Finally, most important: where/how do we want to host and distribute 
> the XPI? I assume that we should have the uncompressed files checked 
> in to CVS as a TreanPlaces project or something (maybe we should have 
> a BrowserPlugins module to hold other stuff, too?); then I guess it'd 
> be great to put it up on the moz plugins site if we can get it 
> approved. Other thoughts here? Jan, any progress serving the XPI out 
> of Horde?

Yes, but I started cleaning up the whole extension which is obviously more
work than just getting the XPI working.

But the layout I use is the following: imp/extension.php is providing the
XPI and the XPI is built from files in imp/templates/extension/. The
layout in this directory is the same like in the XPI to ease maintenance.
But it doesn't have to. I attach an extensions.php the simply takes the
directory one-to-one, in real life we need some processing, i.e. adding
the correct URLs, etc.

This is why I don't agree with your approach of having the extension(s) in
a separate module or even on the mozilla site. The idea is to have one
extension per (Horde) site. 1) because users don't have to configure any
site settings like URLs etc., 2) users can have separate extensions for
each Horde site, and 3) users can get extension updates automatically from
the Horde sites, depending on the IMP/Trean version they run. With "Horde
sites" I obviously don't mean horde.org, but sites that have Horde
installed.