[sugar] How to handle application protocols

[Ryan Pavlik]

Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 00:01 +0200, J.M. Maurer wrote:
>   
>> On Tue, 2007-10-09 at 23:52 +0200, Marco Pesenti Gritti wrote:
>>     
>>> On 10/9/07, Eben Eliason <eben.eliason at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> I can see that happening for python code. However, Write is part Python,
>>>>> part C++. The Python part depends on a specific version of the C++ part,
>>>>> so you can't just send over the python part and expect it to work.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now we don't track the non-python dependencies for an activity anywhere
>>>>> as far as I know, so I don't see this working in practice.
>>>>>           
>>>> This is really just an extension of the bundle transfer idea, by which
>>>> anyone should be able to join an activity on the mesh they don't yet
>>>> have.  There is overhead involved, but bundles are self-contained
>>>> largely for reasons like this.  If the bundle has a newer version,
>>>> then it should be simple enough to transfer the entire bundle from A
>>>> to B.  Assuming the bundle contains the C++ component, what's the
>>>> complication?
>>>>         
>>> I think the c++ component (libabiword) is currently installed in the system.
>>>       
>> Exactly; libabiword is not part of the Write bundle. We could do that
>> ofcourse, but then other applications can't benefit from the libabiword
>> code (such as a Develop activity for example). 
>>
>> I suspect more activities depend on code not in the bundle (browse,
>> etoys?)
>>     
>
> What if we ship libabiword as part of the system (rpm) but .xo bundles
> provide their own abiword plugins? AbiCollab is implemented as a plugin,
> right?
>
> Alternatively, things could work as today (rpms for libabiword and
> libabiword-plugins), but bundles can provide their own plugins that can
> override the system-wide plugins?
>
> Is this feasible?
>
> Tomeu
>
>   
My understanding was that the reason AbiWord was selected as a widget 
for things outside of Write was specifically for AbiCollab, so I'm not 
sure what the first option would gain us.

Maybe the second?  Marc will answer this better.

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Ryan Pavlik
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