My bloviated meandering follows what David E. Ross graced us with on
1/22/2012 5:23 PM:
On 1/22/12 4:52 PM, NoOp wrote:
On 01/22/2012 12:57 PM, Jens Hatlak wrote:
David E. Ross wrote:
When I try to install BetterPrivacy 1.68 in SeaMonkey 2.6.1, I get the
following error: "BetterPrivacy could not be installed because it is
not compatible with SeaMonkey 2.6.1." I get this even when I attempt to
install directly from the AMO site (not my usual practice).
With the ACR installed, compatibility checks disabled or SM 2.7, you can
install the penultimate version of the add-on from its Version History page.
By the way, selecting the link
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/seamonkey/addon/betterprivacy/>
redirects to
<https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/betterprivacy/>.
This is because AMO seems to only check the latest add-on version, which
is no longer declared compatible with SM (author's fault).
...
Jens, any possiblity that the compatibility reporter can include a
box/tick that the extension works if the install.rdf is modified?
For example: with SM 2.7b4 (linux) the following are fine with a
modified install.rdf:
- Novell Moonlight 3.99.0.2.99
- Password Exporter 1.2.1
But, if the install.rdf is modifed (to say
'<em:maxVersion>2.8.*</em:maxVersion>'" and works, the compatibility
reporter denotes: "Marked as compatible by developer" when it actually
wasn't. But the add-on works when modified locally.
Yes, I understand that it is up to the add-on developer to keep this
updated (install.rdf), and that is not the issue I am pointing out. The
issue is how to sort out compatibility when the install.rdf has been
modified locally _and_ the add-on works when modified.
Note that BetterPrivacy 1.68 as downloaded from AMO has install.rdf
containing the following:
<!--SeaMonkey-->
<Description RDF:about="rdf:#$dLacB4"
em:id="{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}"
em:minVersion="2.0a1"
em:maxVersion="2.6.*"
/>
Should not this work with SeaMonkey 2.6.1?
That's in the old RDF format so that may be an issue? The newer format
looks something like:
<!-- SeaMonkey -->
<em:targetApplication>
<Description>
<em:id>{92650c4d-4b8e-4d2a-b7eb-24ecf4f6b63a}</em:id>
<em:minVersion>1.0</em:minVersion>
<em:maxVersion>2.6.*</em:maxVersion>
</Description>
</em:targetApplication>
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