Add-ons that use those APIs can pass review, yes. They would also need to be signed, unless they're using one of the Firefox versions that can disable signing.
Jorge On 8/29/15 10:50 AM, Tim Guan-tin Chien wrote: > 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
