Re: How to XPInstall a plugin and a font on a Macintosh?

Philip Delaquess wrote:
 > We use XPInstall to let our users install the Windows Netscape 6
 > version of our plugin. [..]
 > Now I want to do the same thing on the Mac, having labored many
 > months to port our plugin thereto.
 > [..]
 > But when I hit the big OK button, my script reports a -204 error.
 >
 > I looked up -204 and it equals NO_INSTALL_SCRIPT, with explanation
 > that the "Installation script wasn't signed." Whazzat? From some
 > other posts I just read on this newsgroup, I gathered that Netscape
 > 6.2 doesn't support signed XPIs. I therefore conclude that the
 > *real* problem is that I didn't use the right tools to create the
 > XPI file.
 > On Windows, an XPI file is just a plain ol' ZIP file by another name.
 > Is that also true on the Macintosh? And if so, what is the right
 > tool to create the ZIP, if not Aladdin DropZip?

If I'd was you I would try the same XPI droppin'it on Navigator on
Windows and then I'll check the install.log file to see the results.

If you still get a -204 error, this means the zip file has something
wrong which prevents Moz/NS to see the install.js file on the root
of your archive.

I don't know if repacking under Win32 (e.g. with WinZIP) your XPI
could solve your problem, since I don't know if you need to preserve
special data (e.g. resource fork data). Anyhow taking a look with
WinZIP (e.g. testing the archive) surely wouldn't hurt.

Bye. Andrea

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