Mozilla-importer and mozilla-build-system

Mozilla-importer and mozilla-build-system

[swedebugia]

Hi

We currently have neither langpacks, dictionaries nor add-ons for Icecat
packaged.

This forces the users to install them iperatively through Icecat which
for the case of dictionaries entails getting an error when following the
"add dictionaries" menu-link in Icecat to an old mozilla-page. 

Installing via the new mozilla dictionary UI page here does work though
(swedish):
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g%C3%B6rans-hemmasnickrade-ordli/

Clicking install downloads and loads this file:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/1163981/swedish_dictionary-1.18.1webext.xpi

The langpacks are provided by upstream here:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/60.3.0/langpacks/


Add-ons installation support is buggy as has been reported here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2018-12/msg00004.html

We can do better than this!

I beleive all these problems could be solved easily if we would package
these in guix and make sure our Icecat looks for them in the right
place. 

Perhaps a new mozilla-importer and mozilla-build-system is a worthwhile
project? It should unpack and install the .xpi-files. There is an API
available for the add-ons repository:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/AMO/Add-ons_manager_API

An example output is this:
https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/api/1.5/addon/1865


If we package the langpacks and dictionaries from the upstream links I
hope we can update them with "guix refresh".

-- 
Cheers 
Swedebugia

Re: Mozilla-importer and mozilla-build-system

[Joshua Branson]

swedebugia@riseup.net writes:

> Hi
>
> We currently have neither langpacks, dictionaries nor add-ons for Icecat
> packaged.
>
> This forces the users to install them iperatively through Icecat which
> for the case of dictionaries entails getting an error when following the
> "add dictionaries" menu-link in Icecat to an old mozilla-page. 
>
> Installing via the new mozilla dictionary UI page here does work though
> (swedish):
> https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/g%C3%B6rans-hemmasnickrade-ordli/
>
> Clicking install downloads and loads this file:
> https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/downloads/file/1163981/swedish_dictionary-1.18.1webext.xpi
>
> The langpacks are provided by upstream here:
> ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/60.3.0/langpacks/
>
> Add-ons installation support is buggy as has been reported here:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnuzilla/2018-12/msg00004.html
>
> We can do better than this!
>
> I beleive all these problems could be solved easily if we would package
> these in guix and make sure our Icecat looks for them in the right
> place. 
>
> Perhaps a new mozilla-importer and mozilla-build-system is a worthwhile
> project? It should unpack and install the .xpi-files. There is an API
> available for the add-ons repository:
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/AMO/Add-ons_manager_API
>
> An example output is this:
> https://services.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/api/1.5/addon/1865
>
> If we package the langpacks and dictionaries from the upstream links I
> hope we can update them with "guix refresh".

This sounds like a splendid idea!


-- 
Joshua Branson
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