[HTTPS-Everywhere] Are user rulesets still supported?

[Yan Zhu]

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Hi Christopher,

Thanks for the bug report. It appears that we accidentally lost the
user rulesets feature in the sqlite migration! :(

We should definitely bring it back in the next release.

- -Yan

On 02/06/2014 03:43 PM, Christopher Liu wrote:
> To whom it may concern:
> 
> It appears that version 4.0development.15 no longer loads any user 
> rulesets, at least in the form in which they worked in previous 
> versions.
> 
> I am aware that this is due to the change to an SQLite-based
> container for the built-in rulesets. I did examine the source code
> enough to determine that nothing currently calls the
> getCustomRuleDir() function defined in HTTPSRules.js.
> 
> Do you still intend to support local user rulesets in the future?
> If not, or if the format has changed, please document that publicly
> and have future releases display a warning message if user rulesets
> in the old format are present.
> 
> As a reminder, my use case is that I'm often too busy with
> school/work to go through the formal development process, so I use
> user rulesets to test changes. I also have a few customized
> rulesets for (e.g.) stripping YouTube's "feature" query parameter,
> which is used for tracking.
> 
> Thank you for your time and help. (Sorry, I wasn't quite sure
> whether this message would belong better on this list or -rules)
> 
> C. Liu _______________________________________________ 
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> 

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Yan Zhu                           yan at eff.org
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