1000577 - MDN page for app manifest needs to include the 'precompile' manifest property

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Apps, defect)

Description

[Jason Smith [:jsmith]]

bug 965970 added support for the precompile manifest property. Let's update the app manifest dev docs to include this property.

Comment 1

[(not reading bugmail) Nick Desaulniers [:\n]]

This landed in Gecko 31 so that's FxOS v2.0+.  The manifest needs a field "precompile" who's value is an array of strings which describe the relative path to asm.js files. example:

{
  ...
  "precompile": ["game.js"],
  ...
}

Comment 2

[(not reading bugmail) Nick Desaulniers [:\n]]

Added: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Manifest$compare?from=545329&to=566395
to: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Build/Manifest#precompile

Should probably also add this to release notes.  Is this going to be pulled into 1.4 though?

Comment 3

[(not reading bugmail) Nick Desaulniers [:\n]]

[5:09pm] \n: fabrice: does precompile require an app to be packaged, or are hosted apps allowed?
[5:15pm] marco: \n: only packaged

Comment 4

[Chris Mills [:cmills]]

Thanks Nick. I've copy edited the manifest article entry, and created release notes pages for 1.4 and 2.0:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Releases/1.4
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Releases/2.0

If it turns out that precompile is pulled into 1.4, we can always swap the text over.