said:
>(XPI looks to me to be some kinda
>pseudo Zipfile.
No pseudo about it. It is a zip file, just like a jar file is a zip file.
The xpi extension is just so a browser can knows to process it as an
extension. Without this, it would be more complicated to detect when an
extension is an extension.
>Is there no archive integrity test
>for them ?
Sure there is. It's a zip file so all the standard zip file tools work.
>The gnu UNZIP ?)
Sometimes. However, like most everyone else, I typically use InfoZips'
zip tools.
>So, it's possible that my Mozilla install is messed
>up, yet *some* -- otherwise compatible -- extensions
>install just fine, while others return this error ?
Sure. You don't always do everything right and you don't always do
everything wrong. Complex applications are similar.
>I consider it very
>unlikely that each of these is screwed up -- much less
>in the same exact way -- so if they *still* don't work
>there that suggests to me it has to be the XPIs.
If they never work on Mozilla, it's possible that someone neglected to
test before packaging.
>had installed fine, but threw out a different error
>when I tried to use it. So I guess there is more than
>one failure mode for these things . . . .
Different code. Different errors. We are all going to die. We are not
all going to die of the same thing, unless we are really unlucky.
Steven
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