Re: Extensions Infrastructure Work

[John Stowers <john stowers lists gmail com>]

On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 10:42 +0100, Alessandro Crismani wrote:
> Hi James,
> 
> Il giorno gio, 23/06/2011 alle 04.35 -0400, Jasper St. Pierre ha
> scritto:
> > The only browser-agnostic way to do this is
> > to basically be a website.. that means running a simple HTTP daemon. 
> 
> The following might be really stupid and newbie questions, but I am
> worried by having an unwanted HTTP daemon on my system so I'll fire them
> anyway :)
> 
> Is the HTTP daemon optional? Saying it in another way, can I still
> install extensions the old way and completely disable the HTTP service
> and the one click installation platform?

I will support the new live extension enabling/disabling via DBus in
gnome-tweak-tool.

If the SweetTooth website provides an api then I might look into using
that to do extension install/upgrade from inside g-t-t too. I'm not sure
yet, it might be rude to step on the toes of Jasper.

John