1133986 - Ship Thunderbird with Lightning binaries included

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Thunderbird :: Build Config, defect)

Description

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

To solve the upgrade dilemma, we would like to ship Thunderbird with the Lightning binaries.

See https://calendar.etherpad.mozilla.org/thunderbird-integration option D for more details


To do this, we need to:

1) copy the binaries into a Thunderbird location and make sure its packaged
2) add a manifest file that would load the Lightning binaries to Thunderbird, but don't reference this file from the main chrome.manifest.
3) Add a new backend to Lightning that loads the previously mentioned manfest file. It should not load if calendar.icaljs = true, and there should be a pref to ignore the builtin binaries.

Also, if loading the builtin binary fails for some reason we should fall back to the Lightning packaged binary component.

Comment 1

[Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen] [:📆][:🧩]]

Actually, we went with distribution/extension installs instead.