44053 - chrome registry needs to allow dir and jar destinations

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Warren Harris]

We need a way to allow some chrome files to come out of directories while others 
come out of jar files -- for the same chrome package. The navigator package is 
the major culprit here, since its files are scattered throughout the tree, and 
we'd like to be able to convert one directory at a time to package its chrome 
stuff into a jar file.

Today, we discussed a way to do this, where when the chrome registry parses the 
installed-chrome.txt file, it will (temporarily) add a parallel entry to check 
in a corresponding jar file. E.g. if the installed-chrome.txt file says this:

  skin,install,url,resource:/chrome/skins/modern

it behind the scenes registers 'resource:/chrome/skins/modern' and 
'jar:resource:/chrome/skins/modern.jar!/' as resource substitutions for 
"Chrome,skin,navigator" such that:

  resource://Chrome,skin,navigator/foo.css

tries first to resolve to:

  resource:/chrome/skins/modern/foo.css

and then tries:

  jar:resource:/chrome/skins/modern.jar!/foo.css

(or does that have to be in the other order?)

Hmmm... I'm forgetting the rest...

Comment 1

[Warren Harris]

FYI, I also added nsIResProtocolHandler::HasSubstitutions for this.

Comment 2

[David Hyatt]

Sweet.  I'll get this whipped up by tomorrow sometime.  

Comment 3

[Warren Harris]

Yo. What's up with this? We're ready!

Comment 4

[David Hyatt]

Went on vacation for a week.  Back now.  Anyway, seeing as how some pointy-head 
will chew me out if I work on this bug and/or check code in without the bug 
first being nsbeta2+, I'm nominating it for nsbeta2.

Comment 5

[Peter Trudelle]

hyatt says dprice and warren don't need this after all.  resolving as invalid.

Comment 6

[Warren Harris]

Well, we don't _need_ it, but developers would probably want to have it. Oh 
well.