438824 - Support for Solaris x86/SPARC

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Administration, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Daniel Boelzle [:dbo]]

It would be really cool if AMO could support Solaris (both x86 and SPARC). At least the calendar project does releases for that platform regularly.

Comment 1

[Basil Hashem [:baz]]

Justin, will bug 427098 fix this?

Comment 2

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Justin, should this even just be a DUP of bug 427098?

Comment 3

[Carsten Book [:Tomcat]]

duping to Bug 427098

Comment 4

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

This is not a dupe of bug 427098. That bug asked for the raise of the platform limit to more than three platforms.

Thus bug asks, that two separate Solaris platforms (x86 and SPARC) are added instead of just a general Solaris platform. For an extension like Lightning that ships binary components, we have to release one .xpi for each Solaris package.

The alternative would be to manually glue the two platform xpi files together (like a unified binary for the Mac), but that is a lot of pain and we would really like to avoid this in the future.

Comment 5

[Justin Scott [:fligtar]]

Based on the current usage of platforms other than Windows, Mac, and Linux by add-ons on AMO, we'll actually be dropping BSD and Solaris in the upcoming Developer Tools revamp.

So we're not really interested in adding these additional platforms. If specific support for them is truly needed, I think those files won't be able to be hosted on AMO.