Will either js-ctypes or child process-calling add-on passes AMO review? With signing requirement those add-ons would not be allow to run in Firefox without signing from AMO at all right?
On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us> wrote: > > > On 8/28/2015 10:25 AM, Tony wrote: >> >> Our product makes use of a 3rd party medical device that requires a C >> library for usage. We created a NPAPI plugin that wraps this C library so >> we can access the device from JavaScript. >> >> Here's where the lawyers get involved... >> >> The medical device, **including** the software included with the device >> are FDA certified. We (as an user of the device) are not allowed to provide >> our own software to access the device (which we could do without much >> effort). We have to use the "certified" C library. >> >> The manufacture of the device (and its library) do not wish to share their >> Intellectual Property (IP) with us so that we could create a "modern" >> browser extension. As most of their customers use their product with native >> OS clients, not browser based clients. > > > I recommend that you write this as a Firefox addon in the following way: > > * construct a shim program which links the C library and communicates with > the addon on stdin/stdout > * use the addon SDK and system/child_process to launch your shim program and > communicate with it > > See > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/SDK/Low-Level_APIs/system_child_process > for a description of system/child_process. > > I'm going to contradict Ehsan here: ctypes is a powerful-but-dangerous API > and I wouldn't recommend it unless you have no other choice. We may decide > to stop supporting it in the future. > > --BDS > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
