145274 - [RFE] Allow plugin XPT to live inside OSX bundle

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Peter Lubczynski]

On OSX, some plugins are in a packaged bundle which is really just a set of
directories made to appear in the Finder as a single file. Quicktime is an
example.  If you right click to 'show contents', you'll notice many subdirectories.

Since plugins need an XPT file for scripting support, it would be nice if this
file could live inside the plugin bundle. 

This would allow for easier installation of 'scriptable' plugins and reduce the
likelyhood that the XPT file would be not found.

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So xpt does support multiple directories as this is being done with the plugins
directory service provider list:
http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/xpcom/reflect/xptinfo/src/xptiInterfaceInfoManager.cpp#247

We could possibly change our plugin logic that if we see a special directory for
XPT in the plugin bundle while looking for the plugin, we add this to the
NS_APP_PLUGINS_DIR_LIST and ask the component manager to ->AutoRegister()
(again)? Thoughts?

Comment 1

[Eric Carlson]

This is a _great_ idea from my perspective, it makes our installation much 
much simpler. If you can decide on the name and location of the directory 
within the bundle REALLY, REALLY quickly I might be able to get it into the 
next version of QuickTime.

Comment 2

[Peter Lubczynski]

Another possible idea (maybe more cross-platform) is to create a new
NPN_SetValue variable to allow the plugin to dynmically specify the path of its
XPT file during initilization.

Comment 3

[Peter Lubczynski]

This is a nice feature we'd like to implement in the future.

Comment 4

[Marek Z. Jeziorek]

batch: adding topembed per Gecko2 document
http://rocknroll.mcom.com/users/marek/publish/Gecko/Gecko2Tasks.html

Comment 5

[Brant Gurganus]

[RFE] is deprecated in favor of severity: enhancement.  They have the same meaning.

Comment 6

[rubydoo123]

This is dependent upon being able to scan arbitrary xpt files. We must first
discuss the scanning issue with jband and work through functional issues.

Marking as topembed-

Comment 7

[Benjamin Smedberg]

XPCOM plugins/XPT support is gone.