Open Bug 1743036 Opened 2 years ago Updated 2 years ago

consider providing prebuilt versions of msix-packaging for macOS and Windows

Categories

(Firefox :: Installer, enhancement, P3)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Installer
Type:
enhancement

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People

(Reporter: bhearsum, Unassigned)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [fidedi-tikka])

MSIX packages created in automation are done so with the msix-packaging toolchain provided by https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/taskcluster/ci/toolchain/misc.yml.

This toolchain is very useful for developers on Linux host platforms, who can download and use it to build their own MSIX packages.

It would be nice to provide a prebuilt version of this for macOS as well, since so many developers use it.

It's less clear to me whether providing it for Windows would be useful. Microsoft already provides a makeappx.exe that's functional enough for us. Arguably, we could/should replace it with the msix-packaging version to make it consistent with automation, and allow signing through that tool (instead of relying on signcode).

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