XPI Tools for .NET

This is a project to provide tools for Firefox extension developers, written entirely in .NET.

The motivation of this project is the current lack of any good tools for building an .xpi file from a development source. The Extension Developer's Extension is a nice tool but when I installed it and ran it I got the very unhelpful "error creating JAR file" or something similar. After further investigation I found I needed several other third-party tools installed.

There is also a popular bash script for accomplishing this task which of course does not work on Windows (due to Windows' lack of necessary tools).

Thus, this project. At this point I have a working dual-mode (GUI/console) app which can generate the .xpi file based on an XML settings file. I will be adding more functionality to the code shortly.

Download

I have not yet put together a release package; source code is available in the Subversion repo: http://svn.pumacode.org/repos/xpitools/

Contact

I can be reached at: toby (at) etjohnson-dot-us.