[HTTPS-Everywhere] separate rules from addon

[Peter Eckersley]

Part of the issue here is that changes to the rules are just as capable of
breaking things as changes to the extension's JavaScript.  We could try to
release more often, or we could have a nightly git branch of the extension, or
we could have the rules updated separately, and all of these would have the
effect of moving both bugfixes and new bugs make into people's browsers faster
:).

Perhaps one thing that's worth considering is for people on the mailing lists
to signal clearly when they think there's a change that deserves a new
development (or stable) release, and I'll make one.

On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 10:59:30AM +0200, ano nymous wrote:
> The current dev buld "0.9.9.development.2" has outdated rules.
> How about separating the the rules from the addon. The addon could
> track when a rule is updated, or there is a new one and automatically
> download it. Then, the rules would get updated when they change and
> nobody would have to live with outdated ones.
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