Hi Todd,

I checked out the extension site you referenced..  I was wondering about the
"huge" 12mb download..  I've hacked Mark Hammond's XPI generation script for
gecko 1.8 (FF1.5-2) with a resulting XPI around 2mb including the python
.dll or .so..  I also got it to build standalone (separate from the rest of
the beast) so build time was quite quick..

Have you looked at Mark's approach?  Overall I agree that a Xulrunner/FF
extension is the way to move this stuff forward..

-Ed

On Jan 22, 2008 2:14 PM, Todd Whiteman <toddw@[...].com>  wrote:

>  Paul Everitt wrote:
>  >
>  > I like the nightly trunk builds:
>  >
>  >   http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/xulrunner/nightly/latest-trunk/
>  >
>  > If I could get that, just for trunk, but with:
>  >
>  > - A few patches applied
>  >
>  > - PyXPCOM and a bundled Python
>  >
> 
>  An alternative for making a XulRunner build that includes PyXPCOM is to
>  make an extension (xpi) that can be installed into an existing XulRunner
>  build/application.
> 
>  I've recently begun work on this for Firefox:
>  http://pyxpcomext.mozdev.org/
> 
>  And have extension builds that work with Firefox 2 for Windows and Linux.
> 
>  I think the same principle and idea would suit XulRunner as well.
> 
>  Cheers,
>  Todd
>