597595 - support packed addon installation and execution

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 638742

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

Description

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

The SDK should create XPIs that support packed installation and execution, since it improves startup time on Firefox 4.0 nightlies that support the feature.

See bug 597509 for the workaround we employed to make SDK-generated XPIs work on those nightlies until we can fix this bug.

See bug 597509, attachment 476406 [details] [diff] [review] for mossop's preliminary work to fix this bug.

Comment 1

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Should this be a toolkit bug that blocks Firefox 4?

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Should this be a toolkit bug that blocks Firefox 4?

This is something that needs to be implemented in the Jetpack SDK. Obviously if it becomes apparent that there are bugs in toolkit that need to be fixed to support this then those should be toolkit blockers.

Comment 3

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Which I guess suggests that we ought to get on top of this a.s.a.p. to verify that there isn't anything in the platform that needs fixing.

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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Comment 5

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

638742 has some work in progress on this.