[HTTPS-Everywhere] New location for development and user-contributed rules

[https-everywhere at lists.grepular.com]

On 02/11/2010 19:44, https-everywhere at lists.grepular.com wrote:

>> At a meeting on Friday we decided to abolish the every-last-rule branch
>> entirely in favor of a directory called pending-rules at the top level
>> of our master branch.  You can get the master branch from
>>
>> https://gitweb.torproject.org/https-everywhere.git
> 
> I used to have a symlink from HTTPSEverywhereUserRules in my Firefox
> profile to the every-last-rule directory in my local git repository and
> this worked fine. However, with the new pending-rules directory this
> setup doesn't work because that directory contains some non-xml files,
> ie "make-trivial-rule" and "trivial-validate"
> 
> The old every-last-rule directory had a 00README file in it, but its
> content was surrounded by <!-- --> so I guess it was safe.
> 
> I wonder if those two scripts could be moved to a different directory? I
> tried to update the addon it's self so it would only read files ending
> .xml, but I've never done any Firefox addon development before and don't
> really have time to learn atm...

Heh. I just upgraded to the new version as per the email from a few
minutes ago and it's working now.

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