Create build script based on Ant

[whimboo]

Currently you have to zip the files manually but we can automate the XPI creation process with Ant. It's a great process which already helps us a lot for MemChaser (https://github.com/mozilla/memchaser). We would have to wait until issue #22 has been landed.

[xabolcs]

Would You mind to provide releases for AMO's beta channel with this build script?

[whimboo]

Do you have more information about this process on AMO? I haven't used it so far but sounds very interesting.

[xabolcs]

There is a short section in AMO's Maintenance Policy about this process.

I asked that because if you plan beta releases, then the current pre postfix will enough to trigger the beta channel.
But imho an additional information is needed to know: where are the package build from.
It could be a tag (which could be created when doing the AMO release - like I do in my mr2-onair) or could be a commit hash (which could be provided in the building process - like firefox-fuzzyime would do) too.

By the way in this case (Mozilla is the maintainer of NTT), it's not surely needed of that type of channel.
Because You could also give a full review for an uploaded build. And of course the review queues is empty now. :)

[whimboo]

Thanks for the information. I would kindly address anything related to pre-release versions in another issue. For now just lets create the build script to correctly build the XPI. Pre-releases I will upload to the github download section for now.

[whimboo]

Also I'm not an AMO editor and can't do any review of add-ons. Also I wouldn't do it on my own ones.

[xabolcs]

OK, I will file then.

Please note that build script should include the downloadable binary components in the AMO relase.

[whimboo]

The binaries would always have to be included. But hey, why is the zip archive empty?

https://github.com/mozilla/nightlytt/downloads

[whimboo]

Why can't we simply add those files to the repository but offer them as download? @harthur or @tonymec, does one of you know?