beside that the xpi contains some xpt files which are not reproducible. Cheers Sascha
On 16.10.18 11:07, Sascha Girrulat wrote: > Hi, > > On 13.10.18 03:07, Paul Wise wrote: >> On Fri, 2018-10-12 at 17:23 +0200, Sascha Girrulat wrote: >> >>> The non-free stuff contains only the webdriver extension. >> >> So once geckodriver is packaged, Selenium will work with Firefox via >> geckodriver instead of firefoxdriver and the only consequence of not> having >> firefoxdriver is that WebDriver clients other than Selenium will >> not work with Firefox? > Hm, i am not 100% sure about that WebDriver stuff[1]. Geckodriver is the > link between browser and tests and acts as a proxy for the WebDriver > commands. Im not sure if the extension is still useful for something. If > i understand it right it's not needed anymore. But why it's still shipped? > >> BTW, why is firefoxdriver non-free? The JavaScript files in the .xpi >> seem to be Apache and MPL licensed.Yes but not the .so files beside that. To >> build everything from the > source it has to build from the main repository. But that's really a > muddled bunch of binary stuff and it's not clear if it's possible to > build it from source without breaking the DFSG. > >> Also, didn't Firefox drop support for XUL extensions? The >> firefoxdriver.xpi extension doesn't appear to be a WebExtension. > Yes, i just updated to the 3.14 and there it's still looks like > WebExtension :(. > > Cheers > Sascha > > [1] https://www.seleniumhq.org/docs/03_webdriver.jsp >
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