I finally finished my Firefox extension (called Unwrap Text), and have it posted on the Mozilla dev addons site.

It was a bit of a struggle to get it approved; first the description wasn't detailed enough, then they denied me because my link to the updates.rdf file was at my volleynerd web site. Apparently you can only host updates.rdf on their server - no external links.

Now I'm having a bit of trouble making the "quick description" look good. I enter it with paragraph breaks, and it comes out correct on the pages of newest FF extensions. But when you get to the details page for the extension, the description text is all jammed together.

BTW - I entered bug #315996 at Bugzilla about the "newest extensions" link on their main page starting you at the 2nd page.

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OK, so I'm "approved" at the mozdev.org site (UnwrapText project), but now have to learn CVS to put my source code up there. Found this page for noobs like me.

(update 11/26/05)
My college buddy Dave pointed me to TortoiseCVS for a decent Windows CVS client. Tried that a bit last night, and looks pretty decent. Coming from the Visual Source Safe (VSS) world, there are some different paradigms to transition to in the CVS world. Tortoise extends Windows Explorer with context menus and status icons, so there really is no GUI for it. Adding new directories is a little strange, and apparently per their CVS setup, you can't delete directories, just the contents within them (and those contents end up in the "attic").

Anyway - got my first label of code up there in CVS.

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