12816 - [feature] need XPI init in main()

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core Graveyard :: Installer: XPInstall Engine, defect, P3)

Description

[Cathleen]

we need to be initiallized in main() right after xpcom gets initialized, so that
we can do any file replacement, update work.

Comment 1

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

This can be tested most easily with
ftp://sweetlou/products/client/seamonkey/windows/32bit/x86/<some-date>/update.h
tml

With old builds you could not successfully upgrade mozilla, with double copies
of components existing in the components directory and old mismatched versions
getting loaded. With new builds we can clean those up. Note that to show
brokenness you need to update from an old build to a newer-but-still-old build.
If you upgrade to the 12/3 build or later the fix has been applied and when you
restart the new build you will get the fix.

Comment 2

[leger]

Bulk move of XPInstall (component to be deleted) bugs to Installer: XPInstall
Engine

Comment 3

[Jimmy Lee]

Build 1999-12-17-13-M12(WIN), 1999-12-17-10-M12(MAC)

Capable of doing file update.