New Extensions site

[Chuck Uebele]

Just saw that the old Add-ons site is migrating to a new extensions site. I haven't done many extensions due to the fact that it has been difficult for people to upload them at times, and packaging has been an issue for me. I don't do enough to warrant getting a paid certificate. Will the new site be easier to upload? Can you still use the Adobe packager for this? Can you post paid extensions using a self cert rather than a paid one?

[Trevor: · Accepted solution]

Self-Cert should work

Easier upload, time will tell, (another  2 or 3 weeks)

Packaging - by command line

[Chuck Uebele]

I haven't done the packaging by command line yet. Where can I find instructions?

[Thomas Zagler]

https://www.davidebarranca.com/2014/05/html-panels-tips-10-packaging-zxp-installers/

[Trevor:]

Take note of the links on the home page Extensions / Add-ons Development

The 2nd FAQ contains the above link.

Davide's got a more recent post on signing and timestamp failures search for it on the site.

Highly recommend going through the links on the home page even on a quick peek bases to get a picture of what's out there.

[Chuck Uebele]

Thanks. Yea, I have used Davide's link to sign the panels that I made in the past.

[Davide_Barranca]

My blog contains few entries relative to packaging:

HTML Panel Tips #24: Fixing ZXP Timestamping errors | Photoshop, etc.

HTML Panels Tips: #13 Automate ZXP Packaging with Gulp.js | Photoshop, etc. ​

HTML Panels Tips: #10 Packaging / ZXP Installers | Photoshop, etc.

Hope this helps!

[leo.r]

Trevor, thanks for the info.

Do you know if the old command line tool, ucf.jar, is now obsolete and we should wait for a new one?

I used it in the past but didn't touch for over a year by now.

I tried it again today on macOS High Sierra - and it's either produces a bunch of errors or does nothing.

[Davide_Barranca]

ucf.jar is still useful if you want to pack extension with CS6 compatibility.

Frankly, I've never run it on my current OS (Sierra) hence I've no first-hand experience on High Sierra

[leo.r]

Thanks Davide!

My version of ucf.jar is dated December 12, 2012. I wonder if yours is more recent?

Before posting here, I wanted to check if I have the latest version of ucf.jar which I successfully used on earlier systems to package products that support CS6-CC 2015 (the last time I cared to update on Add-ons was over a year ago).

All links to ucf.jar on Adobe pages seems to be gone. The only links I found were on your helpful website - but they didn't work either, redirecting instead to the current Adobe homepage.

Which means to me that this version of ucf.jar is officially abandoned by Adobe.

On the other hand, in their recent email regarding the new Exchange, Adobe tells us to "continue to submit updates" to Add-ons. I wonder how do they expect us to submit updates if they officially abandoned the current packaging tools.

In any case, I guess we'll get more info from Adobe once the new Exchange goes live. Or is there some updated info regarding packaging tools that I'm missing?

Thanks,

Leo

[Davide_Barranca]

Hi Leo,

for packaging, I'm still relying on ZXPSignCmd to bundle CC->CC-latest stuff.

As for the new Add-ons, it will not support CS6 AFAIK, so one less problem 🙂 It has to be seen yet whether they will implement a better version of their online packaging tool – I think I will keep using my local CLI/building system, though.

[leo.r]

Thanks Davide,

ZXPSignCmd worked! I wasn't aware of this tool until I visited your website.

[Ace___]

Correct

[Guest]

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