[Sugar-devel] Bundling plugins with Browse

[Tomeu Vizoso]

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
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> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 07:50:17PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>I haven't done these tricks myself, but I know that some activities
>>ship executables and libraries inside their bundles.
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>>Two places to look at are modifying PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and insert
>>in them paths inside the bundle.
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> Please make such hacks optional, to ease integration with distributions,
> that often mandate the use of shared libraries.

Sure, the idea here is to be able to fix a bug in the OLPC distro
without having to respin images.

Distros shouldn't resort to these hacks ever, but deployers may find
it handy in some cases.

Regards,

Tomeu