Closed
Bug 292126
Opened 20 years ago
Closed 20 years ago
Use "legal" version numbers
Categories
(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
FIXED
People
(Reporter: Peter6, Assigned: rginda)
Details
The Chatzilla extension currently uses letters in it's version which will not work in Firefox. read http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/extensions/update.html for the rules and options.
Comment 1•20 years ago
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My personal opinion is "no", and to not allow Firefox users use of the middle development versions. And please don't give me any bullshit on comparing versions.
Comment 2•20 years ago
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Just to make things clear, my second remark is not aimed at the reporter or anyone specifically, just mearly warning people what arguments will NOT work within this bug. :)
Comment 3•20 years ago
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So, my personal opinion is that CZ's versioning should've been legal in the Firefox EM sense of things, but. heh. Unfortunately, this *breaks* CZ from being able to install (or be upgraded from the update serivce, which isn't a new thing, since VersionCheck already strictly parsed the version strings.), in Firefox nightlies, and I disagree that I should have to modify the install.rdf just to get a CZ dev version, (which are often passed around as the newest version) to install. The function that does the parsing appears to be this: http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/toolkit/mozapps/update/src/nsUpdateService.js.in#1149 (from Bug 291582)
Comment 4•20 years ago
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I know what it 'breaks'. Some points: - lettered versions will simply be unavailable from UMO, rather than changing (note that UMO is quite happy for people to submit such versioned items, so it is not strict enough). - trunk, and thus nightly builds, will always be compatible (sometimes using the "+", which had damn well still work!). - generally speaking, we're moving away from non-checked-in versions, meaning there will be less lettered versions anyway. Plus, Firefox sucks. *ahem* ;-)
Comment 5•20 years ago
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Sounds reasonable. :-) There's a bug somewhere for making UMO's version checking more strict. It didn't happen originally because I didn't want UMO to be more strict than the client for exactly this kind of reason, bah.
Comment 6•20 years ago
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Err, so what exactly is the problem here? * No version before 0.9.68 will work on Fx trunk *anyway* (see bug 287729). * For now, people can use the nightlies (which will shortly be on par with 0.9.68a - and better). So, since it's no use re-versioning anything before 0.9.68, and nightlies are already nearly equivalent to 0.9.68a, there is no real use re-versioning that either (it'd just cause confusion among users). I'd vote to INVALIDate this bug - ChatZilla devs are well aware of this new limitation of the install system, and I'm sure they will take care of it in new versions - which seems to be all that's necessary, which means this bug is rather useless.
Comment 7•20 years ago
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The newest version is now 0.9.68.2, which is legal, I'd say this bug is fixed. :-) There's no reason to go back and fix old releases for Firefox. Use it as a reason to force Firefox 1.1 Chatzilla users to upgrade.
Comment 8•20 years ago
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(In reply to comment #7) > The newest version is now 0.9.68.2, which is legal, I'd say this bug is fixed. :-) Agreed.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 20 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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