[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] mozilla-devscripts has CDBS for mozilla extensions

[Alexander Sack]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 08:03:41PM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 06:11:17PM +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> > So please check it out. In the mid term, I would really like to see
> > the extension policy being codyfied in xpi.mk and vice-versa.
> 
> Oh pretty please, no, don't codify the (disgusting) use of CDBS.

(please stick to a productive mail style or don't reply at all ...)

xpi.mk is _not_ inheritenly CDBS ... it just provides cdbs compatible
hooks, but if you want to use it manually there are also xpi-install
and xpi-clean targets as well. Could be that there are bugs when used
without cdbs, but it's not necessarily ment to require cdbs.

Also having a reference implementation does not need to make all
happy. You can still package stuff manually if you stick to the
policy. Using .xpi.mk will give you that for free, but it won't be
a must.

 - Alexander