588583 - Add a "shell" option to package.json

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

Occasionally it's useful to allow some packages to be able to define code that does some setup before running main.js. In the case of bug 567703, for instance, it'd be useful to have a separate-but-optional e10s package that set up a separate process for running main.js in, and then took care of actually launching main.js in that process.

Comment 1

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

Attachment: patch

Comment 2

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Comment on attachment 467189 [details] [diff] [review]
patch

Atul asked me to review on IRC, and this seems reasonable. r=myk; it also seems low-risk enough to land during the freeze, so a0.7=myk for landing thereduring.

Comment 3

[Atul Varma [:atul]]

Actually, I think I'm wrong--we don't really need to introduce more confusing features in the SDK, we can instead just fix bug 588661.

Comment 4

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

The Add-on SDK is no longer a Mozilla Labs experiment and has become a big enough project to warrant its own Bugzilla product, so the "Add-on SDK" product has been created for it, and I am moving its bugs to that product.

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