Re: Plugin system like Firefox

From: "Robert Haas" <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: "Bruce Momjian" <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: "Markus Wanner" <markus(at)bluegap(dot)ch>, "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, "Tom Lane" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <greg(at)turnstep(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Plugin system like Firefox
Date: 2008-08-13 01:12:15
Message-ID: 603c8f070808121812m92e6aabi8fe4ec73a57465eb@mail.gmail.com
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>> > .. an OS-agnostic way of installing packages.
>> Uh.. I don't think such a thing exists.
> Seems to in Firefox.

I think nearly all Firefox extensions are written in XML and
Javascript. It's quite a bit easier to have an OS-agnostic way of
installing packages when the packages are platform-independent.

>> > I realize many prefer their OS-native packaging system, but
>> > that isn't the target audience of a packaging system that will increase
>> > adoption.

Really? Who is it?

...Robert

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