353681 - Product XPIs are missing from 1.5.0.7 XPI directory

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Normally, after we ship a release, in addition to the language XPIs, the product XPIs are in the XPI directory. See:

ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/1.5.0.6/win32/xpi/

adt.xpi
browser.xpi
talkback.xpi
xpcom.xpi

These files are not present in the 1.5.0.7 directory.

This makes it impossible to install the developer tools or talkback on a build that doesn't have them.

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I'm pretty sure this is by design, since the installer doesn't use these xpi's any more. See also bug 346639.

Comment 2

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Well that really sucks. But that bug was about 1.5.0.5 - they came back for 1.5.0.6.

Either way, ADT.XPI and TALKBACK.XPI should be on the site since you can install 1.5.0.X without them and it would be nice to be able to add them in.

Comment 3

[J. Paul Reed [:preed]]

Rob:

Can you talk a look?

Comment 4

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

We turned this off on purpose. CC'ing Benjamin as he is more qualified to comment than I am.

Comment 5

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Just to be clear what is happening with us.

Inside IBM, we ship Firefox without talkback or the developer tools.

We don't ship the dev tools because it doesn't make sense to give them to people who don't need them.

For people to get the dev tools after installing Firefox from our internal servers, we pointed them to the ftp site to get the adt.xpi to add the dev tools.

There should be a place to get the adt.xpi at least that corresponds to a release.

We also don't ship talkback for security reasons. But again, we have had cases where people had persistent crashes, so we had them go explicitly install talkback so we could get the data.

This is now impossible.

Comment 6

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Well, we should be shipping a real DOMI XPI (extension, not installer XPI), but that's a separate bug. I don't think we should be shipping the xpinstall adt.xpi.

Comment 7

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Well, we should be shipping a real DOMI XPI (extension, not installer XPI), but
> that's a separate bug. I don't think we should be shipping the xpinstall
> adt.xpi.
> 

Actually, I like the installer XPI because it installs the DOM inspector as a system extension.

Also, the problem is that inspector.dll is tied to each release, so it doesn't really fit into the addons.mozilla.org model.

Comment 8

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

I am going to push these components to the mirrors today (for win32 only).

Comment 9

[Robert Helmer [:rhelmer]]

The XPIs have been pushed to the mirrors, in:

firefox/releases/1.5.0.7/win32/xpi/

All mirrors should have the files within 12 hours.

Thanks for pointing this out Michael. I'll make sure to announce this kind of change more publically in the future, so we can get this ironed out before release instead of after.