Re: proper way to package mozilla extensions

[Asheesh Laroia <asheesh@asheesh.org>]

On Mon, 24 Apr 2006, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:

> 1. There are two possible packaging schemes
>  a. Keep only original .xpi in the .orig.tar.gz, and extract/dpatch it
>     at build time.
>
>  b. Keep unzipped .xpi in .orig.tar.gz.
>
>  I was going the b. way but now I think that keeping original .xpi
>  would be better

I'm no DD, but I would say (a) is nicer because then a checksum can be 
verified more easily.

-- Asheesh.

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