Great job Dan! I didn't know you were already working on this. Looking
forward to this :)
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:57 PM, Dan Callahan <dcalla...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> Alternatively, you can just open up a debugging session to the System app
> and call navigator.mozApps.installPackage('
> https://example.com/update.webapp');
>
> Or do what Fabrice did with his example conversions (
> https://people.mozilla.org/~fdesre/extensions/) and add a button to your
> addon's webpage that runs the above command. :)
>
> <3,
> -Dan
>
> PS: Sorry for taking a few days to get a patch in the queue for WebIDE. If
> it lands, it will be my first real contribution to mozilla-central. Turns
> out there's a bit of a learning curve associated with that. :)
>
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Michael Henretty <mhenre...@mozilla.com>
> wrote:
>
>> As many of you have pointed out to me, you cannot use WebIDE to install
>> the new format add-ons. I filed this just now:
>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1198433
>>
>> In the meantime, to install and test the new add-ons you can use the
>> Hackerplace!
>>
>> Here's what you do:
>>
>> Install the latest Firefox OS on your device.
>> Add your app metadata to the v2 app list [1].
>> Set the DEBUG flag to true here [2].
>> run `npm install && gulp build`
>> Install the Hackerplace app using WebIDE or sole's excellent
>> install-to-adb [3].
>> You should see your add-on in the list there, and be able to install it.
>>
>> Let me know if you have any questions!
>>
>> 1.)
>> https://github.com/fxos/directory/blob/1b05c8d5b24127fc6b8d20001ec460215677e0d0/app/apps-v2.json
>> 2.)
>> https://github.com/fxos/directory/blob/1b05c8d5b24127fc6b8d20001ec460215677e0d0/app/js/model/list_model.js#L3
>> 3.) https://github.com/sole/install-to-adb
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 3:30 PM, Michael Henretty <mhenre...@mozilla.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Earlier, Fabrice sent out a nice how-to guide for migrating your add-ons
>>> to the new format [1]. Now I would like to tell you how to put these new
>>> add-ons on the Hackerplace.
>>>
>>> First, you will obviously need to update your code as specified in the
>>> guide. I recommend hosting both the new add-on format and the old one in
>>> the same repo on github pages. This means you will have two packages (zip
>>> files) hosted there simultaneously. Here is a commit I did for my add-on
>>> that does the trick [2].
>>>
>>> Then you will need to submit the new package to the Hackerplace. For the
>>> old Hackerplace, you would put your add-on on the list in apps.json [3].
>>> Now, you simply add the new add-on to apps-v2.json [4], but specify the
>>> update.manifest in the manifestURL field.
>>>
>>> That's it! Let me know if you have any questions.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Michael
>>>
>>> 1.) https://etherpad.mozilla.org/converting-fxos-addons
>>> 2.)
>>> https://github.com/mikehenrty/fxos-shb-plus/commit/c38fbfb52b2ebf3b4c66cdf053d759c60e510481
>>> 3.) https://github.com/fxos/directory/blob/master/app/apps.json
>>> 4.) https://github.com/fxos/directory/blob/master/app/apps-v2.json
>>>
>>
>>
>
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