Thank you Aleksey. Regards, Marcos <div class="gmail_quote">2010/5/18 Aleksey Lim <<a href="mailto:alsroot@member.fsf.org">alsroot@member.fsf.org</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> <div class="im">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. </div>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. <div><div></div><div class="h5"> > > Thank you, > > Marcos > > > 2010/5/10 Aleksey Lim <<a href="mailto:alsroot@member.fsf.org">alsroot@member.fsf.org</a>> > > > 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 <a href="http://0install.net/" target="_blank">http://0install.net/</a>. > > > > > 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 ( > > > <a href="http://activities.ceibaljam.org" target="_blank">http://activities.ceibaljam.org</a>). 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 > > </div></div>-- Aleksey </blockquote></div>