[sugar] activity sharing protocol

[Dafydd Harries]

On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 18:52 -0500, Owen Williams wrote:
> 
> > > Thanks, I made it a bit further but this error seems un-squeakey:
> > > 
> > > python setup.py install /home/mhunter/sugar-jhbuild/build
> > > Need pysqlite version 2 or higher (http://pysqlite.org/)
> > > *** error during stage install of penguintv: ########## Error running python setup.py install /home/mhunter/sugar-jhbuild/build *** [21/23]
> > > 
> > 
> > Owen, what's the issue here? Do we depend on the system pysqlite now? (I
> > thought that was included in the bundle, but I could be wrong).
> > 
> > Marco
> 
> Ah yes.  I only have one setup.py for olpc as well as the desktop
> distribution, and that script determines whether to build a bundle or
> compile itself based on whether it can import sugar.  If it can, it runs
> bundlebuilder.  If not, it tries the standard build procedure.
> 
> That error message indicates that setup.py could not import sugar and
> tried to install itself the standard way.  
> 
> I've noticed that from time to time with a fresh jhbuildcheckout,
> activities seem to be built before sugar, and so they fail.  I think
> this has something to do with sugar depending on abiword, and we have to
> skip abiword a lot because it rarely builds.

Actually I don't think that's the issue. sugar does _not_ depend on
libabiword. Also I my build has both sugar and abiword compiling, but
penguintv is failing with the same error.

Maybe this is related to the change I did today to bundlebuilder? I'm
now using MANIFEST instead of MANIFEST-OLPC.

Marco