Re: Intent to remove: support for installing multiple xpis simultaneously

2017-02-20 Thread Jorge Villalobos
On 2/18/17 7:40 AM, bird.freudent...@googlemail.com wrote: > Unfortunately I'm using this approach to bundle my themes with an extension > that extends capability to them. I'm wondering why to remove this feature at > this point of development, since for Firefox 57 upwards XUL based addons will

Re: Intent to remove: support for installing multiple xpis simultaneously

2017-02-18 Thread Kris Maglione
On Sat, Feb 18, 2017 at 05:40:32AM -0800, bird.freudent...@googlemail.com wrote: Unfortunately I'm using this approach to bundle my themes with an extension that extends capability to them. I'm wondering why to remove this feature at this point of development, since for Firefox 57 upwards XUL b

Re: Intent to remove: support for installing multiple xpis simultaneously

2017-02-18 Thread bird . freudenthal
Unfortunately I'm using this approach to bundle my themes with an extension that extends capability to them. I'm wondering why to remove this feature at this point of development, since for Firefox 57 upwards XUL based addons will not work anymore. ___

Re: Intent to remove: support for installing multiple xpis simultaneously

2016-12-12 Thread Luca Greco
In case anyone is wondering if removing the "multi xpi" feature is going to affect hybrid addons which are embedding a webextension, the answer is: no, not at all, they are completely separate and unrelated features. Best, Luca ___ dev-platform mail

Intent to remove: support for installing multiple xpis simultaneously

2016-12-12 Thread Andrew Swan
tl;dr: We have two existing features (multipackage xpis and the InstallTrigger api capability for installing multiple xpis in a single call) that are not widely used. I would like to remove them to reduce complexity in the add-ons manager. Background: The XPI file format is used for several types