[Sugar-devel] Bundling plugins with Browse

[Jonas Smedegaard]

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On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:59:35PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:34:29PM +0100, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
>>>On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 8:21 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk> wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>>Two places to look at are modifying PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH and 
>>>>>insert in them paths inside the bundle.
>>>>
>>>> Please make such hacks optional, to ease integration with 
>>>> distributions, that often mandate the use of shared libraries.

[snip]

>Yes, this functionality will be added in the standard way. Contained
>in source tarballs that every distro would package as they see more
>fit. And it would land in 0.84, I'd guess.
>
>The problem is by how OLPC deploys its software, that makes expensive 
>to assemble, test and deploy new images. For them, is better to be able 
>to just upgrade a .xo bundle that to update the whole system image. And 
>they cannot wait for 9.1 images.

[snip]

I believe I got it now: This is about custom activity packaging aimed at 
a specific system (the XO) due to its Ribose being more complex to 
update.

Since this is in _addition_ to the standard activity packaging wihtout 
embedded libraries, I should not worry.


Thanks (also to Morgan) for your patience :-)


  - Jonas

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