280075 - [seamonkey] extensions, dependencies and automatic resolution

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Marco Romeny]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

The Mozilla suite should implement dependency checking and resolution for
installable extensions. Preferably some kind of auto-install needed extensions
with a question would be good. Modelled after apt-get / urpmi ...


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:



Expected Results:  
INSTALLATION:
The 'Rsync Good Looking UI' (rsyncglui.xpi) needs additional software to run:
* Rsync Protocol Support (rsync.xpi)
* SVG Graphics Support (svg.xpi ; version >= 3.1)
Should *(fox|bird|zing|plop) attempt to fetch and install these from 
update.mozilla.org? (y/n)

UNINSTALL:
The extension you are attempting to remove (SVG Graphics Support ;svg.xpi)
is needed by: 
* RSync Good Looking UI (rsyncglui.xpi)
* ....
These extensions will be uninstalled in addition to SVG Graphics Support 
if you choose to continue. 
Uninstall all above? (y/n)

Comment 1

[Benjamin Smedberg]

This sounds like the future plans for the toolkit extension manager. The only
way I can see the mozilla suite getting this is by porting to be a new-toolkit app.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

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Comment 3

[Tony Mechelynck [:tonymec]]

In reply to comment #1:
As I suppose you (bsmedberg) know, SeaMonkey-trunk now has the same extensions interface as Fx & Tb. This, of course, doesn't mean that we have a dependency system between extensions.

Confirming and adding helpwanted + Future. If I goofed, please correct me.

Comment 4

[Robert Kaiser]

Old XPFE installer is dead now with the end of life for SeaMonkey 1.x, so this is not relevant any more in the SeaMonkey 2 world.