[sugar] GConf?

[Matt Hoosier]

On 10/19/06, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-10-19 at 14:43 -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is OLPC planning to include GConf? When doing a jhbuild of sugar,
>
> No, unless there is a very good reason.
>
> > GConf is eventually dragged in as a linking dependency of libgnomeui,
>
> The jhbuild environment won't replicate the actual OLPC environment by
> definition, and it would be a bunch of work to try to do so...  You also
> will have a bunch of libraries accessible to activities running in the
> jhbuild environment that are on your local system.  So I'd expect other
> stuff to get dragged in anyway.
>
> I think the "canonical" SDK would be an OLPC devel image run in vmware
> or qemu.  Possibly updated with gcc if needed.  That's the only way you
> can be sure nothing from your normal desktop/laptop system is sneaking
> in.
>
> Dan

Okay, thanks. I didn't think so; just checking.

>
> > but I don't see it [or the gconf-dbus port] mentioned anywhere in the
> > jhbuild set of modules proper.
> >
> > If so, how will activities' schema registration and unregistration be
> > handled, given that bundles aren't allowed to install any artifacts
> > outside their own private directory?
> >
> > --Matt
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