Hi all, I've been packaging Finnish spell checking support for Fedora (see http://voikko.sourceforge.net/) and now I've packaged a Firefox extension which uses the Voikko library to do spell checking in Finnish. My initial testing package can be found here: http://vpv.fedorapeople.org/packages/mozvoikko/ What do you think about packaging Firefox extensions, are they allowed and would someone be interested in reviewing this package if I submitted it? Beagle-firefox is probably the only Firefox extension packaged currently in Fedora and I made my package so that it matches the locations etc. used in that package. Of course the extensions can be installed from Mozilla's web site as well, but especially with this extension there would be a couple of benefits if it was shipped as an RPM: It can be built against the libvoikko and libmalaga libraries available in Fedora and it uses the Finnish data files available in Fedora (malaga-suomi-voikko). The extension version which probably will be shipped from Mozilla's web site needs to have the libraries and the data files compiled in it, because it can't assume much from the target system. Thus it will probably be much larger (the uncompressed data files seem to be around 8 megabytes) whereas the extension built to call the stuff already in the system takes around 70 kilobytes (uncompressed). Also, if the extension is installed via Firefox from Mozilla's site, it will only be installed for the single user, so if the system has for example 5 users and all of them install the extension for themselves, the difference will be even bigger. -- Ville-Pekka Vainio -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
