[ASLO] [REQUEST] MathGraph-1

[Aleksey Lim]

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:10:29PM -0300, Marcos Orfila wrote:
> If people can download the experimental activities w/o logging in (just
> enabling the check box for experimental), then it's Ok for me.

I posted this proposal to devel@ but didn't get feedback, so I just
added news (left side, under categories) line on ASLO home page.
Will disable authorized experimental downloads if people dislike it.

> 
> Thank you,
> 
>     Marcos
> 
> 
> 2010/5/10 Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>
> 
> > On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 05:24:34PM -0300, Marcos Orfila wrote:
> > > Thank you Aleksey.
> > >
> > > I have created MathGraph32 activity, so please delete MathGraph activity.
> >
> > done
> >
> > > For the future ".xo" bundle format, I would suggest the possibility of
> > > having symbolic links. If we have to provide binaries for several
> > platforms
> > > (e.g. x86 and x86_64), it's better to use symbolic links to share
> > platform
> > > independent data for the different binary sets. Currently, we need to
> > > duplicate all the application data when shipping multiplatform activities
> > > that include binaries.
> >
> > 0install is a full featured packaging system e.g. package MathGraph
> > could have several sub-packages, one for data and per arch sub-packages
> > thus users won't fetch the same data.
> >
> > You can learn more about 0install on http://0install.net/.
> >
> > > Either the MathGraph32 activity and the Java activity will work in Dugar
> > > versions 0.82 and 0.84. The interaction with Sugar is pretty basic and
> > XO-1
> > > will continue to be x86 platform, so I believe there won't be any problem
> > > with that.
> >
> > btw there are plans to witch to ARM (but not sure how real they are). And
> > the major my concern, sugar is not OS for XO, it would be pretty useless
> > if sugar is tied only to XO laptops.
> >
> > > MathGraph32 is also available on CeibalJAM web site (
> > > http://activities.ceibaljam.org). The idea of having MathGraph32 and the
> > > Java activity in SugarLabs is to make it available to more OLPC
> > deployments.
> > > If it stays not public, nobody will find it. Please consider having these
> > > activities public for the sake of the community benefit.
> >
> > But users can search not public activities, afaik there are only two
> > special thing regarding experimental activities:
> >
> > * users needs to enable check box to see experimental activities in
> >  several listings (but search works as is)
> > * user has to be logged in to download experimental activities
> >
> > Do you think about other disadvantages? Will experimental activities
> > useful from your (and CeibalJAM) POV if any user can download them w/o
> > logging in?
> >
> > --
> > Aleksey
> >

-- 
Aleksey