1082561 - [webide] if the manifest file has changed, don't reload the app, re-launch it

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, defect)

Description

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

A reload is not enough to take into account changes in the manifest.

From bug 1032098:

(In reply to J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] from comment #3)
> (In reply to Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau] from comment #2)
> > There is two way to think about that, either WebIDE is smarter and knows
> > when we need to just reload the page or the whole app. In such case, it
> > would either call reload or stop/start.
> > 
> > But we can also tweak the actors.
> 
> As long as it's reasonable to do, I think detection like this should be in
> app actor.  The reason is that WebIDE doesn't really know the exact state of
> the app that is already installed, as the files could have been edited
> outside of WebIDE.  Since the app actor is on device, and the device can
> check easily what's already installed, it seems better to me to put such
> "smarts" in the actor.

Comment 2

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Apps are being removed with B2G cleanup.