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On 02/09/2018 23:27, Philipp Kewisch wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Thunderbird 60 will persist until Thunderbird 60.9.0, which is set to
release some time around October 2019 and coincides with the Thunderbird
68.1.0 release.
Using XUL add-ons is not recommended. bootstrapped add-ons will exist
until about Thunderbird 65. What you should look into is WebExtension
Experiments, and devising Thunderbird-specific APIs around that.
Unfortunately Thunderbird 60 is missing some of the more important basic
WebExtension features, but I hope to backport this in an upcoming minor
release. They work fairly well in nightly though.
You can read more about WebExtension Experiments in Thunderbird here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/thundernest/tb-web-ext-experiments">https://github.com/thundernest/tb-web-ext-experiments</a>
If you would like an intermediate path, you could aim for a bootstrapped
add-on. Note however you will need to rewrite to a WebExtension at some
point before Thunderbird 68. Upgrading from a bootstrapped add-on to a
WebExtension could be less effort than doing so from a XUL add-on, but
my recommendation would still be to write it as a WebExtension Experiment.
I'm sure this brings up a lot of questions I'd love to answer, and more
importantly document so that others can benefit. It would be great if
you could help us identify where we need to improve our documentation.
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May I suggest that it might be very helpful if you or Jörg update
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Add-ons_Guide_63">https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird/Add-ons_Guide_63</a> with
information. It adds to and expands on the information already in
the wiki article.<br>
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Can I just confirm what major version numbers of TB are intended (as
things stand) to be released and what their addons support is
intended to be?<br>
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60 : Already released.<br>
61 : Will not be released.<br>
62 : Will not be released.<br>
63 : To be released. Currently last release to support XUL
addons?<br>
64 : ?<br>
65 : To be released. Currently last release to support
bootstrapped non-webextension addons?<br>
66 : ?<br>
67 : ?<br>
68 : To be released. All addons from now on to be
webextension?<br>
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I know all this is subject to change so I'm only trying to get a
clearer idea of how things stand today.<br>
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And that classic question: Just how flexible will webextension (or
should I call them mailextension) addons be in terms of UI
flexibility compared to current addons?<br>
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Mark Rousell
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