700104 - add on builder helper fails to install

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Add-on Builder, defect)

Description

[Jan D]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928134238

Steps to reproduce:

tried to (re)install the add-on-builder helper. Previously, the add on was listed as installed but failed to work. (On Firefox 7.01/WinXP SP3)


Actual results:

On the add-on page was a "While installing add-on-builder helper an error occurred" and the error console threw a
"Warnung: WARN addons.manager: InstallListener threw exception when calling onInstallFailed: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIFile.isDirectory]"  nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"  location: "JS frame :: resource:///modules/XPIProvider.jsm :: <TOP_LEVEL> :: line 7326"  data: no]
Quelldatei: resource:///modules/XPIProvider.jsm
Zeile: 7326"

Comment 1

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Can you still reproduce this?

Comment 2

[Daniel Buchner [:dbuc]]

I have not been able to reproduce this; Jan D, can you?

Comment 3

[Jan D]

sorry, lost track of this. Yes, it still can be reproduced, firefox now (version 8) claims: "Add on Builder Helper can not be installed because the necessary file can't be changed.

Comment 4

[Thomas Bertels]

The problem is that the pathname becomes too long (at least) during the install for some Windows systems.
Check bug 636268 for the full explanation about this bug.

Removing the unpack=true parameter would fix this. And since bug 638742 is now fixed, it should be feasible.

Comment 5

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

The builder project has been discontinued as of April 1st, 2014.

The announcement last year: https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2013/12/18/add-on-builder/

Next steps (still being written): https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Builder