From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Joshua Branson Subject: Re: Mozilla-importer and mozilla-build-system Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:01:37 -0500 Message-ID: <87o98fnx9q.fsf@dismail.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:58295) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gk9Aw-0000jb-8l for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:01:50 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gk9Aq-0003Mu-5T for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:01:46 -0500 Received: from dismail.de ([78.46.223.134]:44294) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gk9Ao-0003Dd-BU for guix-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 10:01:40 -0500 Received: from dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 89425eac for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:01:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp2.dismail.de (10.240.26.12 [10.240.26.12]) by mx1.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id 4b9a1277 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:01:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp2.dismail.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp2.dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTP id d7ba9b57 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:01:31 +0100 (CET) Received: by dismail.de (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 50e6dc11 (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2019 16:01:30 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: (swedebugia's message of "Wed, 16 Jan 2019 04:30:27 -0800") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: guix-devel@gnu.org 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 Sent from Emacs and Gnus