502844 - WinMo localized cab installer

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Fennec on windows ships as cab files, which we don't have localized builds for.

We need someone from the fennec team that understands that file and what strings go into it to take this.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

What part of the CAB file are we talking about here?

Or do you mean the CAB file cannot be unpackaged, localized, and repackaged to a CAB?

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We don't have cab files for l10n builds. I don't know anything else.

Comment 3

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Coop's going to give this a shot.
Thanks Coop!

Comment 4

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Is this currently blocked on bug 502654?

Comment 5

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I don't think so.

Comment 6

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

We were hoping http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/tip/build/package/wince/make_wince_cab.py would work.  There may be a standalone makefile or script coming that creates the directory tree from the zip and runs this script... currently that logic depends on the autoconf'ed makefile in objdir/mobile after a build.

Comment 7

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

502933(In reply to comment #4)
> Is this currently blocked on bug 502654?

No, but we do need to consider bug 502933 now too. That bug will create a different installation means, replacing CAB as the primary install file for WinCE.

The new installer still uses a unpackaged ZIP archive as the source, just like the CAB tool.

Comment 8

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Punting this back into the pool for now.

Comment 9

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

mfinkle, blassey: looking at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=502933#c87, do we still need a localized cab installer here, or should we morph this bug into "WinMO localized self-extracting zip installer"?

Comment 10

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

The rough plan for final release is to do one multi-locale cab for the mobile marketplace (they only take cabs) and the individually localized exe's for direct download. (all signed)

For nightlies we should continue to produce both cabs and exe's since we're not signing either and unsigned exe's are problematic for security-enabled devices.

Comment 11

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

just to follow up, I see no need to localize the cab installer itself, but the what it installs will be multi-locale for release

Comment 12

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Filed bug 548229 to get us a list of locales for the multi-locale build.