[ASLO] [REQUEST] MathGraph-1

[Marcos Orfila]

Thank you Aleksey.

Regards,

     Marcos


2010/5/18 Aleksey Lim <alsroot at member.fsf.org>

> 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
>
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